Entertaining Children

  Chapter 957 Set a file for summer vacation

  While Xiao Yao was busy with the post-production of the animated film, the preparations for that parkour film had already begun.

  In late March, this movie crowdfunding project passed the review of a well-known crowdfunding website in the United States and was officially launched. Before the crowdfunding project passed the review, the official website of the film was completed, and the official website of the film was opened one day before the crowdfunding project went live on the website.

  With the official website of the movie, the project description of the project on the crowdfunding website just briefly introduced that this is a movie project. The link to the official website of the movie is given below. For the specific situation, please go to the official website of the film to find out about the interested netizens.

  In addition to posting part of the script outline on the official website of the movie, it mainly announces the list of identified main creators and their biographical information.

   announced the list of main creators including the main roles of the producers, directors, screenwriters, action directors and main actors. The overlap rate of the names in these job lists is very high. All of them are multiple jobs. It feels like four or five people want to save a movie. From this point of view, it is very much in line with the practice of crowdfunding movies. But after reading the personal information of the main creators, it doesn't feel like that.

  The most conspicuous among the main creative staff is Xiao Yao, who is listed in these positions.

A young Chinese singer and actor who played on the Oscar stage as a member of the band "Immortals" in the early years; participated in the filming of the Eva swimsuit special last year, was a guest performer on the "Eva Show", and made two performances; this year Participants of the Basketball All-Star Masters Tournament, tied for one of the MVP winners; the music works have been on the billboards of the United States and the music charts of European countries, and several original songs and MVs are popular all over the world; the previous New York airport hijacking and New York fashion The parties involved in Zhou robbery and kidnapping cases.

  These things are not only reported by the media in one country, and Xiao Yao’s reputation around the world is not low. Even if someone who seems strange to this name at first glance, after reading the introductions and masterpieces in the materials, you can find out who he is after a little hands-on checking.

Another director, Mu Ying, is not well-known, but according to his personal information, he has not only directed the short films of BMW, but also officially directed the shooting of feature films in Hollywood. At least in the film and television circles, he is not a single person. An unknown rookie director.

Zhao Rui, Xu Fei, and Chen Xiaoting, the three young people of China, are not well-known outside China, but from the personal information, these three are all actors and actresses. They are not old and the film and television works they participated in are not. Few, it should be a child star who has been acting since he was a child, and a more senior actor, at least in China, still has a certain reputation.

Judging from the personal information on the official movie website, the five people on the main creator list can be regarded as stars in the show business circle. They are not ordinary grassroots at all, even if their personal income is not enough to support the production cost of a movie. There should be sufficient resources and ways to attract investment, and there is no need to use crowdfunding to make movies.

  Four Chinese acting stars and a Chinese director who mixed with Hollywood went to the US crowdfunding website to raise funds to make a movie? For ordinary people, there are people watching the excitement, but there are probably not many who are really willing to invest money. However, the target of Xiao Yao and others' crowdfunding this time is not ordinary people, but a specific group.

  On the homepage of the official website of the movie, there is also a video in a conspicuous position. This video is their biggest reliance on this movie crowdfunding project.

  This is a promotional video shot by Xiao Yao, Zhao Tao and Xu Fei. In the video, the front is a scene of three people doing parkour. When the three people stopped, they exposed to the camera that they were three members of the YRF team and stated that they planned to shoot this film. The original intention of parkour movies.

  Below this video, there is also a link to the web address. After clicking, you are connected to the YRF channel on the PV video website. Here, it is an identical video.

The YRF channel of   PV website is the official video release channel of this parkour veteran team recognized by parkour enthusiasts. Such a video appeared on the YRF channel of the PV website, which undoubtedly confirmed the fact that the three people in the video are the three members of the YRF team.

  As the initiator team of the parkour sport, the three members of the YRF team have never shown their faces in the video. Their identities have always been a mystery to parkour enthusiasts.

Shortly after the kidnapping case of New York Fashion Week last year, Xiao Yao once used the account of this website to post a video about recruiting MV actors. At that time, someone broke the news that Xiao Yao was one of the members of the YRF team, but Xiao Yao never made it public. Respond, that is, never admitted.

  This time, the three members of the YRF team not only made a collective appearance, but also joined forces to make a parkour-themed movie. Those parkour enthusiasts are naturally extremely excited and excited.

  YRF three people said in the video that this parkour-themed movie was shot by parkour people for parkour people to see. In order to maintain the purity of the film, they did not want any film company or corporate capital to participate and affect any aspect of filming. They launched this crowdfunding only when their own funds were insufficient. Since the parkour people make parkour movies, and the veteran team of parkour initiators work together to make parkour movies, of course, parkour enthusiasts must give their full support.

   Therefore, soon after the crowdfunding project went live, many netizens generously donated their money and joined the crowdfunding project.

  The crowdfunding project is progressing well, and Mu Ying, who is in charge of this matter, also feels a lot easier. After it seemed that there was no problem, he also shifted his focus to the preliminary selection of cast members, scene selection and supporting roles that Xiao Yao said. Although there are still more than three months before everyone’s planned start-up time, it takes a lot of time and energy to do these things.

  Although this movie crowdfunding project was carried out on a crowdfunding website in the United States, parkour is already a popular sport in the world, and this news soon spread among parkour enthusiasts in many countries around the world. This aspect made the crowdfunding process more smoothly, and the news quickly spread to the country of several protagonists, China.

  The world's popular new extreme sports parkour was actually initiated by several young people in China. This news also greatly stimulated China's parkour enthusiasts and many ordinary people. Of course, China’s media reporters are naturally excited about this. The entertainment reporters are most interested in this, because these three sports founders are all China's performing arts stars.

  The term parkour has once again become a hot topic in China, and this sport has also set off a wave of enthusiasm in China. At the same time, several parties have also received interview invitations from many media reporters.

  At this time, Xiao Yao was still thinking about making soundtracks for animated films and other later stages. Naturally, he was insensitive to this kind of interview invitation. But fortunately, the protagonist this time is not Xiao Yao alone, but also Zhao Rui and Xu Fei. The two of them readily agreed to the interview of the media reporter, satisfying the curiosity of the reporter, countless parkour enthusiasts and some ordinary people.

In the interview, the two told reporters in detail about the production of the sport and the process of their team formation. They also described in detail the film’s various related aspects from the proposal of creative ideas, plans for crowdfunding, script writing, and the current progress of preparations. Happening.

From the interviews between the two, it seems that Xiao Yao came up with this sport in order to improve his action style when he was filming on the set. Zhao Rui and Xu Fei of the same crew saw it and learned to play with him. So a team. Although the idea of ​​uploading the video to the website to share was Chen Xiaoting's idea, it was Xiao Yao's idea to post the sports name, team name, and even to foreign websites to spread the sport to the world. When it comes to shooting parkour-themed movies and crowdfunding to raise funds for the movie, it is also Xiao Yao's idea.

  Although parkour enthusiasts generally recognize the founder team of YRF, the real inventor of this sport is actually Xiao Yao alone.

Compared with the best newcomer actor who won the TV series "Flying Award" by virtue of the "Changying" corner of that TV series, the achievement of creating a new world popular sport is not small, and even more incredible is that, At that time, Xiao Yao was a junior high school student who was in the second to the third year of junior high, and this was because of his own actions when he was filming in the crew.

  After these reports came out, Xiao Yao, the evildoer, has once again become a hot topic on the Internet.

  When there was a lot of discussion in the media and the Internet because of Xiao Yao’s development of parkour a few years ago, Xiao Yao was busy with animated films.

  After all the post-production of the film is completed, what Xiao Yao and Tong Luo have to do is to find the distributor of the film, submit the film for review, and then determine the film's release schedule.

  Xiao Yao has made up his mind not to run a roadshow during the film's release. Roadshows are an important means of publicity for many film distributors during the film's release, and it will also affect the movie's arrangement of movies in theaters, and then affect the movie's box office. In terms of movie revenue, the distributor generally cooperates with the producer by adopting a sharing model. Xiao Yao’s failure to run a road show is not conducive to the promotion of the movie and the theater schedule, and it is also detrimental to the film’s box office. This is inconsistent with the interests of the distributor.

  In terms of Xiao Yao's own reputation and the resources of his family, his films should be able to find China's first-class film distributor to cooperate. But first-class publishers are generally large companies with deep pockets and have a lower tolerance for Xiao Yao.

  Although Xiao Yao has always held titles like evildoers and geniuses, this first feature film directed by him is also a good stunt, but Xiao Yao’s film is an animated film.

  Currently, China’s animated films generally lose money. Even if it seems to have a good reputation and box office, due to the huge production cost, it basically loses money in the end. The production cost of Xiao Yao’s animated film is also quite high. The distributor wants to make money, and the box office of the movie is very high.

  Although Xiao Yao's reputation is very big and his appeal should not be small, this is an animated movie, and Xiao Yao will not appear in the movie screen. The publisher feels that with a bunch of behind-the-scenes names, it is really unknown how many fans Xiao Yao can attract into the theater.

   Originally did not have much confidence in the box office prospects of this animated film, and now Xiao Yao still talks ahead of time and does not even do the road show. Naturally, the first-class distributors have less interest in Xiao Yao’s film.

  However, Xiao Yao just doesn't run roadshows, nor is he too lazy to do nothing about publicity, and as a producer, his interests are linked to the movie's box office revenue. With only the condition of not running a road show, Xiao Yao's search for film distributors to cooperate with is just a little less popular, a little more difficult, and it is not completely missing.

Even if those first-class distributors with rich wealth refuse to cooperate with Xiao Yao because of Xiao Yao's conditions, with his reputation and network resources, among the slightly lower-level distributors, there are still people who are targeting Xiao Yao's name and this movie. Is willing to cooperate with Xiao Yao.

  To tell the truth, Xiao Yao is very confident in the quality and prospects of the film. The publisher’s ability to publicize and distribute will be fine. As for the publicity, he doesn’t have much demand for those distributors. All he wants is that someone can help him send the movie to theaters. By cooperating with the next few publishers, the producers can also have more voice, and Xiao Yao couldn't ask for it.

  Under the introduction of Ye Jiaying, Xiao Yao finally chose to cooperate with a relatively medium-sized film distributor in China, and entrusted the issue of the film to the other party.

  After selecting the distributor, the next step is the submission of the movie for review. The original version of this animated film has a rating of G in the United States, which is a film rating suitable for people of all ages. There is nothing in the film that will cause discomfort. When Xiao Yao made this movie, he also intentionally increased the proportion of the yellow race in the human role in the movie. Even the most important captain role was changed to a Chinese, so the review process of this movie went very smoothly. It took less than a week to get the release permit.

  When I got the release permit, the time had come to the end of April and the beginning of May. From the end of June to the end of August and the beginning of September, there is only more than a month left for the summer vacation.

  Summer vacation is a very important golden period in the movie market. Blockbuster films have always been crowded together and the competition is fierce. In order to avoid becoming cannon fodder on the summer battlefield, some films will also deliberately avoid this time.

This year, in China alone, there have been several domestically produced local movies with well-known directors, well-known actors, and known as commercial big productions, announced that they will be released in the summer. In addition, there are also several so-called commercial blockbusters imported from Hollywood. Announced the scheduled summer release. The publicity of each movie feels menacing, and it is quite like a battle in the summer.

  The pre-screening publicity of a movie is more appropriate within a month. Normally, Xiao Yao’s animated movie can be released in time for the summer. So Xiao Yao’s animated film, which took two years to produce, has entered this summer battlefield fearlessly, competing with those blockbuster films, but temporarily avoiding the edge, postponing or early release, avoiding the summer file, and choosing one. Relatively speaking, the competition is not so fierce. For Xiao Yao, the answer will definitely be the former.

  After getting the release permit, Xiao Yaoyi did not hesitate to set the movie's release time in late June at the beginning of the summer vacation. On the one hand, Xiao Yao was originally an unyielding temper, and he had full confidence in this animated film, and he was not afraid of being tough with other so-called blockbusters! On the other hand, whether it is to advance or postpone the movie's release time, it has a big impact on Xiao Yao's work.

  (End of this chapter)