Entertainment: Defamation, I definitely don’t have any hidden rules

Imperial Capital, Beautiful Life Company.

Chen Kaige has completed his new film “The Taoist Goes Down the Mountain”.

He blamed the failure of “The Legend of the Cat Demon” last time on Cao An’s “The Wandering Earth” being too strong.

So this time he has to find a suitable schedule.

It’s already September, and the nearest good schedule is the National Day schedule, otherwise you have to wait until the New Year’s Day schedule at the end of the year, or the Spring Festival schedule next year.

But he has given up this, because the three films in the finals of the National Directors Competition will be released during this schedule.

He doesn’t want to rush in and be cannon fodder.

He asked his assistant, “What are the movies that have been scheduled for the National Day?”

The assistant took out a document and answered, “There are not many movies that have been confirmed to be released during the National Day. There are two Hong Kong movies, “Line Walker” and “The Dangerous City.”

“The former is starred by Zhang Jiahui and Louis Koo, and the latter is starred by Liu Qingyun and Louis Koo.”

Hearing this, Chen Kaige smiled and said, “It seems that Louis Koo will have to work overtime during the National Day. What else?”

“I just got the news yesterday that Wu Jing’s “Wolf Warrior 2″ is also scheduled for the National Day.”

Chen Kaige remembered the name Wolf Warrior. He had seen the name of this movie when he was researching Cao An and Zhang Yimou.

He remembered that this movie directly became a victim of the fight between Cao An and Zhang Yimou, and he didn’t expect that there would be a second part.

Seeing his boss’s indifferent look, the assistant reminded him:

“Boss Chen, according to reliable information, the biggest investor behind “Wolf Warrior 2″ is Fanxing, accounting for more than half. Fanxing’s female artist Gao Yuanyuan is also the heroine of this movie.”

Hearing the word “Fanxing”, Chen Kaige immediately sat up from the recliner.

The relaxed expression before disappeared instantly, his brows slightly frowned, and his face was cautious.

“Give me a copy of “Wolf Warrior 2″, the more detailed the better.”

Although Fanxing was established not long ago, the boss Cao An is also very young.

But now no one in the film and television industry can ignore Fanxing’s ability.

I fell into a big trap at Cao An’s hands last time, and I must be cautious this time.

Otherwise, if this movie fails again, my reputation that I have accumulated in the past will be ruined.

Without reputation, I can’t control people, and the people below will become more and more disobedient.

It will become more and more difficult to carry out future work, the audience will be less and less willing to buy it, and it will become difficult to make money.

After a while, the assistant handed Chen Kaige the detailed information of “Wolf Warrior 2”.

As soon as he got the information, he began to look for the two words “Cao An” on it.

A few minutes later, he breathed a sigh of relief. He did not see Cao An’s name on the list of all the production staff of “Wolf Warrior 2”.

This movie only accepted investment from Fanxing, so Fanxing arranged Gao Yuanyuan to play the heroine.

The previous worries dissipated instantly, and the confidence as the director of the Cannes Palme d’Or returned.

After hearing that Fanxing participated in the investment of “Wolf Warrior 2”, he was worried that Cao An would participate in the script of this movie.

Now it seems that these worries are false alarms.

The level of “Wolf Warrior 2” should be the same as Lin Hao’s “Crazy Stone” some time ago.

Fanxing is just a simple investor, and Cao An did not participate in the production.

So based on the box office performance of “Wolf Warrior 1” and “Crazy Stone”, Chen Kaige speculated that the box office of “Wolf Warrior 2” should be around 500 million.

No more than 1 billion at most.

During the National Day holiday, a movie with a box office of 1 billion is nothing to be afraid of.

As for the two Hong Kong movies “Line Walker” and “Dangerous City”, Chen Kaige is even less worried.

In recent years, the box office appeal of Hong Kong movies in the mainland has been getting lower and lower.

To put it bluntly, it is aesthetic fatigue. After so many years, they are still making police and gangster movies.

The medicine is the same.

After reading the introduction, he can make up all the plots in his mind, and he can even tell how to make the key parts more interesting and the visual effects better.

So he is not worried about these two movies, both of which are destined to have hundreds of millions of box office.

After thinking about this, he directly instructed his assistant: “The Taoist Goes Down the Mountain is scheduled for the National Day holiday, and will be released on October 1st. Promote it according to this.”

“Okay.”

Watching the assistant go out to work, Chen Kaige lay on the sofa chair with his hands crossed.

He muttered in his heart: “This time I must step on Fanxing’s movie and let the world know that I am still one of the best directors in China.”

…

Fanxing, viewing room.

Cao An finished watching “Wolf Warrior 2” in this world. The plot is almost the same as he remembered.

But it can be clearly felt that the production precision is higher, after all, the budget has been increased a lot.

And there is also the support of Fanxing’s excellent production team and Sunglasses Tiancheng, one of the best special effects production companies in China.All the shortcomings in his memory due to funding are gone.

“Very good, it seems that Fanxing will have another famous director.”

Wu Jing was relieved when he heard that Cao An recognized his movie.

He had never had any confidence in this movie.

Now Cao An, a director who is at the top level in both shooting and appreciation, has recognized it.

In his opinion, this movie will not lose money.

“Thank you, Boss Cao. With your words, I can finally sleep well.”

“Don’t worry, have confidence in yourself.”

Cao An comforted.

Then Cao An gave Wu Jing some suggestions for improvement in editing and post-processing. After listening to them, Wu Jing suddenly realized and praised them repeatedly.

Cao An has shot so many movies and TV series, even without the help of the system itself, he has the strength of a first-line director in China.

So the suggestions he gave Wu Jing were sharp and pointed to the pain points.

In September, Fanxing did not make any big moves.

So Cao An had a rare month of leisure.

During this period, he took the time to write the scripts for “When Happiness Knocks on the Door” and “The Three-Body Problem 1”.

The protagonist and background of “When Happiness Knocks on the Door” were moved to China, and the plot was adapted according to the domestic situation.

Although Cao An exchanged the filming knowledge of “The Three-Body Problem 1” and “The Three-Body Problem 2”, things have to be told in order.

So he plans to produce “The Three-Body Problem 1” first, and “The Three-Body Problem 2” may have to wait for a while.

There are too many famous scenes in it, such as the famous Spring Festival two thousand gunshots, which is very difficult to make.

Because there are many plots in “The Three-Body Problem 1”, Cao An deleted it to a certain extent.

Shorten or delete unimportant side lines, and focus the lens on Wang Miao, the “human camera”.

And enrich the character settings of the main characters.

The plot of “The Three-Body Problem 1” was condensed into a two-and-a-half-hour movie.

I don’t know if it was out of tacit understanding, Cao An just finished writing the script for “The Three-Body Problem 1”.

Netflix sent someone to find Fanxing, wanting to buy the web drama adaptation rights of “The Three-Body Problem”.

And they asked for 10 million US dollars right away.

With “The Three-Body Problem” winning the Hugo Award, this novel has not only become popular in China, but also gained a huge number of readers abroad.

The number of views of related videos has accumulated to billions.

As the world’s leading streaming media, Netflix will naturally not let go of such a good IP.

Netflix came to give money for free, and Fanxing naturally had no reason to refuse.

So the two parties signed an authorization contract, and Netflix bought the web drama filming rights of “The Three-Body Problem” for 10 million US dollars.

The term of this contract is five years, which means that if Netflix has not filmed it within five years, it will not be able to film it.

If you want to film it, you have to buy it again.

When Cao An’s overseas company SS received the payment from Netflix, Cao An said to Xiaoling: “Send a red envelope of 1 million to Liu Da.”