Millennium director

The third installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean series has become something that Wu Yuan and the crew are already familiar with.

The actors are all veteran actors who have worked together in movies 1 and 2.

There is no need for any running-in. After everyone puts on makeup, they can immediately enter the character state.

Including Liu Yifei, although she is a new actress, she is so familiar with Wu Yuan that they sleep in the same bed. Of course, Wu Yuan will not feel any stranger to her.

From the first day of filming, the filming of Pirates of the Caribbean 3 went extremely smoothly, and it was on the fast lane from the beginning.

Starting from the Bahamas, the crew of Pirates of the Caribbean 3 traveled all over the small Caribbean.

The filming of this movie also provided an excellent job opportunity for the Hollywood Extras Guild.

Only a week after filming started, more than 7,000 people have already signed up to star in the film's extras. The crowds are unprecedented and a spectacle that has never been seen in Hollywood.

The second part's box office of US$1 billion was enough for the entire Hollywood to take this sequel seriously.

The entire Hollywood is also paying attention to this movie to see if it will continue the brilliant achievements of this series.

The producers, directors, actors, and crew who originally started filming with great expectations also had to bear the pressure.

Fortunately, Wu Yuan is the kind of director who is good at turning pressure into motivation.

And while he was busy filming Pirates of the Caribbean 3, new good news came from China.

Good Guys, Bad Guys, and Strange Guys, which was completed in January, has successfully completed post-editing and is ready for review.

Zhang Guorong took the crew of more than 200 actors and crew from the Gobi Desert in Gansu to the prairie in the Northeast. After even renting a real steam train, he finally shot this Chinese western film Out.

Three outstanding actors, Huang Bo, Liu Ye, and Xu Jinjiang, worked together to deliver an answer that Zhang Guorong was extremely satisfied with.

The story of this movie is actually very simple. It is a major robbery caused by the treasures and treasure maps left by the Manchus outside the customs.

Three horse bandits with different personalities inadvertently came up with the idea of ​​​​the treasure map in the hands of the little devil, and then met when they robbed the little devil on the train.

For this treasure map, the three of them tacitly chose to cooperate, but also fought among themselves, maintaining a bottom line that could not be broken through fighting, and a series of humorous stories emerged.

In the end, they did not find the so-called Manchu treasure, but they accidentally destroyed an evil operation planned by the little devil in Manchuria, hiding their merit and fame.

The story is actually very old-fashioned and full of classic plots from western movies. It can be said to be a tribute or an imitation.

For domestic movie fans who have basically never been exposed to Western movies, it is quite novel, and it is definitely no problem to watch it for fun.

Referring to Wu Yuan's suggestion, Zhang Guorong himself also played a cameo role in the film, as a small-town tavern owner whose role was not too important.

This is prepared for the Korean market. When Good Guys, Bad Guys, Weird Guys operated by Light and Film Era is released in South Korea, it will be branded as Zhang Guorong's directing and starring, which will attract many Korean movie fans to the cinema.

After completing the editing of the finished film, Light and Shadow Times immediately submitted it for review.

Because the director is from Hong Kong, the review of this film was very smooth. In addition, the subject matter is a satire on the Japanese army, so it easily won the Dragon Award.

So knowing that Wu Yuan was busy filming Pirates of the Caribbean 3, Li Xiaoping still called him and asked him if he had any special arrangements for the release of the movie.

It's not just this movie.

Several other films in the first phase of the Light and Shadow Era's Young Director Support Program have been completed one after another, leaving only Xue Xiaolu's Ocean Paradise that has not yet been filmed.

Xue Xiaolu wanted to invite Li Lianjie to play the leading role. After reading the script, Li Lianjie was moved by the script and even offered to star for free.

Li Lianjie, who has been acting in movies for 30 years and has always been making Kung Fu movies as a star, also wants to change his career. This art film is to his liking.

But his recent schedule has been fully booked.

Before that, he had The Name of the Register to be filmed.

Yes, Chen Kexin still formed the project The Investment Certificate, secured investment, and invited three superstars, Jet Li, Andy Lau, and Takeshi Kaneshiro, to co-star.

After the filming of Tou Famous was completed, he immediately joined the crew of The King of Kung Fu.

Although the Double J project was ruined, Huayi still roped in Li Lianjie and Chow Yunmao to work on the project. The role of Golden Swallow fell on Li Binbin, and the white-haired witch became Fan Xiaopang.

Huayi really did not let outsiders take advantage of this time. The two main female roles were left to its own artists.

The director of this film, Rob Minkoff, is a true kung fu fan and Chinese fan. He has been obsessed with Chinese kung fu movies since he was a child, and loves movies such as Drunken Master, Once Upon a Time, and Enter the Dragon.

Even the wife he married was a 76th generation descendant of Confucius.

Originally, he desperately wanted to invite Cheng Long to star in this movie, and even the characters in the script were tailor-made according to Cheng Long's image in Drunken Master.

But Cheng Long still has Pirates of the Caribbean 3 to shoot, and the Kingsman series waiting on hand. To be honest, he really doesn't like the Kung Fu King project.

Originally, Cheng Long was willing to take on the project King of Kung Fu. The main reason was that after making several movies in Hollywood, he couldn't get any Hollywood film appointments.

With the next best thing, The King of Kung Fu is indeed the best film contract we can get. At least it is a Sino-US co-production that will be released in North America.

But the situation is different now. Now that Cheng Long has Wu Yuan to help him, it cannot be said that it is a smooth road in Hollywood, but at least the development is on the right track again, so of course he will not look down on co-productions.

In desperation, under pressure from Chinese and American investors, Robert Minkoff had no choice but to agree to use Chow.

Fortunately, there is Jet Li, whose Once Upon a Time series Rob Minkoff also likes to watch, and he is very happy to be able to cooperate with this kung fu superstar.

The King of Kung Fu will start shooting in May, and Jet Li needs to work on this movie first.

So at least until October 2007, he had no time to star in Ocean Paradise, and Xue Xiaolu had not yet found a suitable actor to play Li Lianjie's son, so the preparations for this movie were very slow.

In comparison, the shooting of several other supported films went very smoothly.

Li Ruijun's Summer Solstice was submitted to the Greek International Independent Film Festival and the Rotterdam International Film Festival.

Han Yan's To Whom I Dedicated My First Kiss will be released this month.

Cheng Er's The Third Man and Liu Meichuan's Don't Knock have both been filmed and successfully submitted for review.

Cheng Er's film didn't touch any sensitive areas and passed the review smoothly.

But Liu Meichuan's Don't Knock is a horror film, and the General Administration has given guidance that in principle ghosts are not allowed to appear in mainland movies.

As we all know, there are no ghosts in this world. Materialists are scientific and do not engage in feudal superstition.

For the sake of the light and shadow era, and the strong support for the development of the film industry in the past two years, the leaders of the General Administration pointed out a clear way.

The ending was re-filmed and the protagonists woke up in a mental hospital. It turned out that all this was a hallucination caused by too much mental stress and was imagined.

Well, this is very scientific.

His elbows couldn't hold his thighs, so Liu Meichuan had to follow the guidance of the General Administration and call on the actors to reshoot the ending, which successfully passed the review.

Li Xiaoping called Wu Yuan just to ask him if he had any requirements for the release of these movies.

Of course Wu Yuan has no special requirements, and he doesn't expect these movies to make money. He just wants to support and cultivate new talents.

For specific screening arrangements, you can just negotiate with Director Han.

“In recent years, there have been more and more domestically produced films, and it’s not so easy to get a good schedule, so don’t be too demanding.”

As a result, following Wu Yuan's instructions, Li Xiaoping and Director Han quickly set the release dates for these films.

The most important and most anticipated film, Good Guys, Bad Guys, and Weird Guys is scheduled to be released on August 18 in the summer season.

This schedule is pretty good, as there is only one film ahead of it, The Secret That Cannot Be Tellable directed and starring Jay Chou.

Moreover, the release dates of the two movies are about half a month apart, so the impact on each other should not be great.

Liu Meichuan's Don't Knock is scheduled to be released on September 12th, which is only nine days apart from The Sun Also Rises which will be released on September 21st.

The Sun Also Rises is Jiang Wen's hard work after being banned from directing for five years, but this is a literary film, and it is not at all on the same track as horror films like Don't Knock, so it doesn't need to be too much. Worry.

Cheng Er's The Third Man is scheduled to be released in June. This year's June is completely the month of literary and artistic films. All the mainland movies released are literary and artistic films. Everyone can't sell the box office, and there is no need to worry about the box office market being destroyed by a film. It happens that the whole movie is eaten.

The only one that may be more threatening is Soul Chariot starring Nicolas Cage, which is a Hollywood commercial blockbuster.

However, this movie was first released in North America in February, and then IMDb only had a score of 5.2. The North American box office performance was also mediocre. It has been criticized as a bad movie. It is very unlikely to be a big hit in the domestic market.

In addition to To Whom I Dedicated My First Kiss, which will be released this month, four movies will be released in the country in the light and shadow era this year!

The light and shadow era, which has only been making 1-2 movies a year, and is a bit of a fuss, is finally on the right track, developing like a mature and professional big production company!

Li Xiaoping, who has taken over the company for two years, has a happy smile on her face.

It's a pity that this year's Light and Shadow Era will still be absent from the Lunar New Year period, the most important movie schedule in the Mainland.

It would be great if Wu Yuan could have a finale movie in the Lunar New Year period at the end of the year to end the era of light and shadow.

Li Xiaoping, who was still a little dissatisfied, had bold hopes in her heart.