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"I thought the crew would take a break today, but you're actually here?"

The bald Yuande said with a smile from the crew of the sequel to "The Matrix".

He has been cooperating with Jiang Heng since "The Matrix 1" five years ago. It can be said that he has contributed to every work of Jiang Heng.

Even though Hong Kim-bao served as action director in several films, Yuen Tak was also busy with the work.

Therefore, the two have a good relationship in private and occasionally joke around.

Jiang Heng said seriously, "Every day's shooting plan is set, I will definitely come!"

Yuande chuckled in a low voice, "I thought the king would not come to court early from now on!"

"Don't talk nonsense, she and I are innocent!"

Yuan De pursed his lips and smiled, nodded and said: "Yes, I believe it. In our industry, even if reporters block the door, we can still say that we are ordinary friends who stay up all night studying the script!"

Jiang Heng didn't say anything, just glared at Yuande.

The latter quickly suppressed his smile and left with an excuse.

As for the other people in the crew, they didn’t dare to say much at all, and the filming continued as usual.

Monica has stunning looks, a proud figure, and outstanding acting skills. The original one-week shooting plan was completed in just three days.

But he was not in a hurry to leave, instead he was visiting the capital.

Jiang Heng finally gave the crew a half-day vacation, accompanied this Italian national treasure beauty to visit the Forbidden City, and sent her to the plane at night.

After that, the filming continued and soon came to the scene where the male protagonist battled "antivirus software" Smith.

Neo's fight with a hundred upgraded Agent Smith is one of the two major scenes in "The Matrix 2", and its classicness is unquestionable.

In Zhou Xingxing's "Kung Fu", a group of brothers from the Ax Gang were beaten into the sky, and this scene paid tribute to them.

When filming the original work, the Wachowski brothers considered that with so many characters, using "bullet time photography" to deal with them would cost a lot of manpower and material resources, and finally decided to abandon the use of "bullet time photography", marking the first time in film history. Use comprehensive "virtual shooting" technology all at once.

To this end, the stand-ins underwent several months of training, mainly imitating every word and action of "Hugo Weaving", including his various expressions and movement habits.

When the stuntmen's imitation of Hugo reached the director's satisfaction, the action guidance team and the male protagonist joined in and started rehearsing the action scenes, using "motion capture" technology to complete all Neo and a hundred "Smiths" All the movements were input into the computer, which ultimately created the famous special effects scene of "The Matrix 2".

Of course, Jiang Heng has a "super microcomputer", so it won't be so troublesome to take pictures.

They just found a hundred stuntmen with a similar body shape to Yuan De in advance and trained them to imitate Yuan De's movement habits.

As for facial expressions, you only need to determine the number of "agents" who will show their faces, and then perform a "face-changing" operation for each "agent" who shows their face.

Take "motion capture" shots of Yuan De's corresponding facial expressions, then input them into the computer and combine them with the corresponding "agents" to get the corresponding footage.

The filming of this scene was quite tedious, but the final effect was stunning.

In the blink of an eye, June has entered, and the filming of the sequel to "The Matrix" is more than halfway underway, and the post-production of "Splitting the Mountain to Save the Mother" has also been completed.

After successfully passing the review, it’s time for pre-screening promotion.

The film is scheduled to be released on July 19th, and students in universities, middle schools and primary schools across the country are on holiday, so it will definitely contribute to the box office.

As for publicity, Jiang Heng doesn't have that much time, and he can't lead a team to screen and promote the film in several major domestic cities as before.

In this case, Han Sanping naturally had to take up the banner of publicity and said to Jiang Heng: "You don't have to worry about publicity. It's all routine operations. I'll arrange for the people below to do it. It's the premiere, as long as you can come!" "

Jiang Heng smiled, "Then I definitely have to come. If I don't come, the media may spread some rumors!"

Han Sanping thought the same thing. "Splitting the Mountain to Save Mother" is a work directed and starred by Jiang Heng. If he didn't come, it would mean that the hero and the director would be absent at the same time!

"Fortunately, this drama features guest stars. Later, we will draw up a list. We only need to find more than ten celebrities to help promote the show!"

In his opinion, the five major ticket-rich cities in China will definitely have to screen and promote the event. As long as two celebrities are present in each city, the event can be held.

It's a pity that the heroine Tang Yan is not well-known. Otherwise, if she had led the team to visit more cities, the effect would have been better.

After the discussion was completed, Jiang Heng called the guest stars and finally found more than 20 celebrity friends who were willing to participate in the screening promotion.

The film's premiere is scheduled for the afternoon of June 28 at the Capital Workers Stadium.

Beijing, Xinhua Noodle Company, Zhang Weiping looked at the invitation in his hand in confusion, his mind a little confused.

"When Director Jiang guest-starred in "Hero", he hadn't even finished writing the script for his new movie! But his new movie was about to be released, and we were still in post-production? How could there be such a big difference in time?"

Opposite Zhang Yimou was also a little puzzled, and even pondered several times as to why Jiang Heng's filming progress was so fast, and why he was so fast in post-production.

How come when it comes to oneself, when it comes to various things, sometimes they have to do it all over again!

After thinking for a while, he said: "Perhaps he is the kind of person that God rewards with food. He is confident in whatever he shoots!"

"Maybe!"

Zhang Weiping scratched his hair, his expression a little irritable.

This year's summer schedule is occupied by Jiang Heng, so forget it if the later stages of "Hero" are not completed.

But I heard news there that "The Matrix 2" will be released during the Lunar New Year holiday, which is quite worrying.

It’s no wonder that The Matrix 2 will be a big hit at the box office, and it may even surpass Pacific Rim.

Although Hero is also a big production, it doesn’t dare to compete with The Matrix 2 in the same schedule.

But there are no other good schedules except summer vacation and New Year’s Day. We can’t rush to release it on October 1st!

“What do you think about the schedule?”

“At least half a month should be allowed, otherwise it will definitely affect the box office!”

Zhang Weiping nodded and agreed with Zhang Yimou’s words.

“That’s the only way. I hope there will be a good result!”

In a blink of an eye, on June 28, there was a long queue in front of the Beijing Capital Workers’ Stadium, almost all of them were young faces.

The nearby streets were jammed, and many police came to maintain traffic order.

Tang Yan came here accompanied by his parents. He was really surprised when he saw this scene for the first time.

“So many people?”

“Yes, I can’t believe that so many people can come for a premiere promotion!” Tang’s mother sighed.

Because there was a red carpet, after entering the stadium, Tang Yan walked separately from her parents.

It was her first time walking on the red carpet in a dress, signing on a huge poster display board for the first time, and then she was stopped by the beautiful host Tu Jingwei of the movie channel.

"Hello Tangtang, can you tell me how you feel at the moment?"

"Very happy and very excited!"

"What do you want to say to the audience?"

"Splitting the Mountain to Save Mother is a very good film, I hope everyone will support it!"

"Have you seen it?"

Tang Yan smiled sweetly and nodded.

Tu Jingwei looked curious, "Can you tell me how it works?"

"Well, I think it's more appropriate to use shocking, because many fighting scenes are better than "Lion Camel Ridge"!"

"Wow!"

Tu Jingwei said exaggeratedly, "Surpassing "Lion Camel Ridge", that's amazing, you know? "Lion Camel Ridge" is the best mythological movie in my heart!"