Don't call me Master, call me Director

Guangan Matsuoka punched the desk.

From the preparatory stage of the film, the film director from North America was very dissatisfied with Godzilla's appearance.

In the director's mind, Godzilla should be a reptile that perfectly conforms to biology, not a fantasy species created by the Japanese!

The old man first protested, and after the protest was invalid, he played tricks and forced the film to be made according to his own design.

By the time Dongbao noticed the problem, the movie was already halfway through filming in the shape of a lizard.

When Dongbao asked the director why he didn't make the movie according to the original design, the other party replied confidently: "The design drawings are lost."

"Damn your whole family and lost the blueprints!!"

Of course, Guang'an Matsuoka knew that this was an excuse from the other party. Even if the crew's design drawings were lost, there were still several unfinished drawings in Dongbao's warehouse.

Using that as a reference, a new blueprint can be recreated in less than three days.

"That white-skinned orangutan did it on purpose!!"

Guangan Matsuoka really wanted to scold the other party in front of the other party.

But he had to hold back, the film was halfway through filming, and more than half of the filming funds had been invested. At this time, the director was driven away, and the film project was completely over.

After all, not everyone is Warner, who will make the disabled operation of changing the director when the director has almost finished the film.

After biting the bullet and filming this biological version of "Godzilla", Dongbao couldn't wait to hold a trial screening.

The responses from several screenings were surprisingly consistent, and the evaluations with a perfect score of 10 basically hovered around 4-5 points.

The composition of this score has two sources, one is because of Godzilla fans.

They couldn't accept the appearance of "Godzilla" in this movie, so they gave a low score in retaliation.

The other part is the pure passer-by audience. The scores they give are basically around 7, which belong to works that can be seen.

For a special film, the average score of 7 is above average.

"Look, Mr. Guang'an."

Holding the score sheet, the white director showed off confidently: "The average score of 7 points proves that my opinion is correct. This is the right way to make this movie."

"But, those low scores..."

"That's just an insignificant special case." The other party sneered disdainfully, "How many core fans can there be in the special film? Once it is released on a large scale, the opinions of these people will become insignificant."

"Is it really so?"

Guangan Matsuoka felt uneasy.

"Of course, trust me."

"That schedule..."

"Let's arrange it one week after another special film ("Super Eight"). They are all special films, and the release of our film will have a traffic impact on them, and then the box office will be all ours. Haha Ha ha!"

Amidst the director's arrogant laughter, the time came to May 2006, 5, one day earlier than Dongbao's "Godzilla". Ring the Continent.

Chapter 232 The Battle of the Premiere

Seeing the day when the movie was released approaching, Guangan Matsuoka felt more and more anxious.

The only thing that comforts him is that he can see Shinji Matou and his Ultraman movie go one step ahead of him.

Although Shinji Matou has not announced the production cost of "Super Eight" so far, but this is the male idol of Johnny's family, and what kind of 3D new technology is used. Anyone who thinks about it with his ass knows that the production cost of the film is definitely not high. Low.

But how much box office can this new Ultraman movie get?

As we all know, Altman movies and TV dramas are completely two concepts.

Although the TV version of Altman before the new generation has a lot of episodes, the overall quality is pretty good, and various magical episodes are emerging in an endless stream.

But the theatrical version is completely different.

Regardless of the Showa-style editing trilogy, the theatrical version of the Heisei period has either a ghost face or a ghost face.

It's definitely not terrible, but it will undoubtedly drop a notch compared with the TV version.

The most important thing is the box office of the Ultraman series of movies. So far, no Ultraman movie has a box office of more than 8 million yen.

Don't talk about making money, Shinji Matou's movie is already blessed by God if it doesn't lose money.

"Looking at the publicity, the cost of that movie must have exceeded 10 billion yen, and this movie will definitely pay him to death!"

After figuring this out, Guangan Matsuoka immediately relaxed a lot.

"Maybe, I can witness the fall of that kid?!"

Guangan Matsuoka thought maliciously.

If Guangan Matsuoka is full of malice towards Shinji's new movie, then Erye's other rival group of film critics is not interested in this movie.

"That brat, is this admitting cowardice?"

Hanoi Yiping put down the newspaper in his hand, shook his head and sighed.

The assistant next to him glanced at the contents of the newspaper, curled his lips and said, "I think it's to test the so-called new technology? No matter how high the box office of the Ultraman movie is, it's only a little bit higher, and it doesn't matter if the box office hits the street. "

This is not the opinion of the assistant alone. In fact, most people in the film industry have similar ideas.

Because this is exactly what Shinji said—in order to test new technologies.

Hanoi Yiping folded the newspaper in his hand and put it aside, and said with a contemptuous expression: "Anyway, "Super Eight" is a special film after all, and we have no way to criticize it."

Although Shen Er himself didn't mean that, most of the film critics still regard "Super Eight" as a special film for children.

This kind of movie that children watch, as long as there is no problem with the big three views, the childish plot is nothing to worry about.

Even if you film the complex aspects of human nature, can children understand it? !

Take the weak plot of children's movies as an issue, it's like comparing a bicycle with a Tesla for brakes, you don't show your face when you win!

"Anyway, even if you enter the venue without the boss, this movie will still face the sniping of "Tesla". It won't work." The assistant reminded.

Hanoi Yiping leaned his head on the sofa, looking at the ceiling and thinking.

There are two most heavily publicized movies in Japan's summer vacation in May this year, one is "Godzilla" and the other is "Super Eight".

Not only are these two old-fashioned special films, but the related publicity is full of fog.

All the current movie trailers for "Godzilla" have not shown the protagonist Godzilla's full face. It seems that they are preparing to surprise the audience until the official release.

"Super Eight" did show the cast and plot outline, but its publicity model seems to be divided into two teams.

One set only promotes the battle between Ultraman and monsters, and the other is a crazily playing emotional card. These two sets of publicity plans are so incompatible that the audience is guessing whether these are actually two movies.

However, in the eyes of Hanoi Yiping, a veteran film critic, these two popular movies are basically the old man next door fighting against the outlaw Zhang San, and they are all the same!

"Use some strange and obscene tricks to make a fool of yourself." Hanoi Yiping snorted coldly, "Forget it, "tomorrow will be the time to see the outcome!I hope that kid who likes to make trouble doesn't let me down. "

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Compared with these two people who are hostile to Shen Er, fans of Shen Er have been looking forward to the movie "Super Eight" for a long time.

After all, FSN and FZ are producing one film a year, but this "Super Eight" is two years after Matou Shinji's last film.

The production time is so long, either it is slow work and meticulous work, or it is screwed up and dare not show your face.

And considering Shen Er's current high-quality experience in film and television works, fans are more willing to believe that "Super Eight" will be the former.

In this case, everyone's expectations for "Super Eight" are very high.

Although UBW and HF have been used as fillers in the past two years, how can the TV series on the small screen be as refreshing as the big screen? !

So when Xingyue and Times Group announced the release date, the fans' enthusiasm was instantly ignited.

The pre-orders for the premiere tickets of "Super Eight" are far more enthusiastic than everyone expected.

Especially those viewers who watched the trial screening clips did not hesitate to buy the IMAX version of the movie tickets, causing all the tickets for the first round of IMAX screenings to be sold out.

This sounds incredible, but it's actually nothing special.

After all, IMAX screens are still a rarity these days, and even regions with mature movie markets like North America and Japan don’t have many IMAX screens.

Fortunately, Guang'an Matsuoka didn't need to compete with ordinary movie fans for tickets. As a senior executive at Toho, he directly got the invitation letter for the premiere in Fuyuki City.

Guang'an Matsuoka didn't think this was a provocation by Matou Shinji, because Matou Shinji invited countless executives from film and television related companies to watch the premiere.

Not to mention the executives of Japan's four major film companies, Shinji Matou, including Johnny's, also invited them, as well as well-known filmmakers in the Japanese circle, related media, and even European and American film companies. Attended the premiere of "Super Eight".

Don't look at the fact that there are not many celebrities and idols present at this premiere, in fact, the ones sitting in this theater are the ones who are in charge of the film industry today!

With such a luxurious lineup, if Shinji Matou really wanted to miss Dongbao, he would look petty.

Of course, Guangan Matsuoka is very clear that this also means that Shinji Matou is very confident in "Super Eight", at least in that new technology.

Finding so many industry leaders to watch movies is obviously aimed at promoting new technologies.

Slightly dazed, Guang'an Matsuoka walked across the red carpet and walked into the hall of Xingyue Cinema. At this time, Shinji, who was talking to Kitagawa and his brother, saw him and walked over.

At this moment, the eyes of everyone around were focused on Guang'an Matsuoka and Matou Shinji.

During this period of time, the media has been bragging about Ultraman vs. Godzilla for so long, and everyone in the industry is waiting to see this good show.

It would be better for Matou Shinji to go over and punch Dongbao's people now, so that it will be more lively.

Unfortunately, this kind of thing is impossible.

Because Shen Er smiled and extended his hand to Guang'an Matsuoka: "Director Guang'an, you are a rare visitor!"

"I heard that Director Matou is going to show the world the technology of a cross-age era. As the number one company in the Japanese film industry, Toho will naturally send a representative to take a look."

Guang'an Matsuoka's tone of speech was very relaxed, but it was not difficult to find from his mention that Dongbao was the number one in Japan, and he was already showing timidity.

However, Shen Er didn't seem to understand what the other party meant. He cupped his hands casually and said, "Where, where. If Dongbao can take a fancy to these little gadgets of mine, it would be a blessing from my third generation. Who made your company Is the release threshold too high?"

"The Japanese film market has been booming in the past few years, thanks to Director Matou's outstanding contribution. Today, Director Matou's new movie is released, and I should come to support it."

Of course, Guang'an Matsuoka heard that Matou Shinji was mocking him, but he still directly avoided the old account of Dongbao's refusal to issue FSN.

Speaking of which, there is no one in Dongbao who does not regret the loss of FSN, even Guangan Matsuoka, who is hostile to Shinji.

Especially in Bandai's public financial reports in the past few years, there are all kinds of amazing Fate-related income, which makes Dongbao executives feel uncomfortable.

At the beginning, Shinji Matou was the first to think of Dongbao, but Dongbao himself turned him away.

However, Shen Er's yin and yang strangeness is not over yet. After Guang'an Matsuoka expressed his supportive attitude, he nodded his head and "commented" and said: "Dongbao is indeed magnanimous. Seeing that the project he rejected became popular, not only did he not do anything bad to let the film critics People attacked each other, and they didn't use force to block me, let alone make a movie to compete with me face to face."

"Switching to other film companies, they have already tried various ways to hold me down. It is a great honor for the Japanese film market to have a film company as magnanimous as Toho as the industry leader."

[Who are you scolding, you little bastard? ! 】

Guang'an Matsuoka suddenly became angry, because Dongbao did everything Shen Er said, but unfortunately all failed.

Dongbao tried every means to suppress Matou Shinji and his Xingyue, but he still couldn't.

Oh no.The matter of making a competing film has not yet been resolved, so we can't "predict" it!

Despite all kinds of MMPs in his heart, Guang'an Matsuoka's Qi-nourishing skills were revealed in this situation.

He acted as if Matou Shinji was really praising himself, and responded with a smile: "Of course, Dongbao's goal is to make the Japanese film market flourish, and it is of course that we can have a talent like you, director Matou, let us know." I'm very happy. Director Matou needs to take care of me a lot."

"sure."

Seeing that the other party is so tolerant, Shen Er can't continue to mess around.He shook hands with Guang'an Matsuoka, and then sat in a gesture of invitation.

"Director Guang'an, please!"

Shen Er asked the staff of the movie theater to lead the way, and took Dongbao's people to the seats reserved for them.

As soon as he sat down, the director of "Godzilla" brought by Guang'an Matsuoka couldn't help complaining: "Who does that brat think he is, how dare he be so arrogant! He is obviously an orphan abandoned by film critics and the mainstream !"

"He has this capital!"

Guangan Matsuoka was too lazy to talk nonsense with this arrogant guy, he closed his eyes and said calmly.

The other party's cheeks were flushed by Guang'an Matsuoka's words, his throat seemed to be blocked by something, and he didn't say a word for a long time.

Guang'an Matsuoka didn't care at all, anyway, now that the filming is over, Dongbao and this disobedient guy are ready to part ways.

In fact, if it wasn't for the promotion of "Godzilla" next week, Guang'an Matsuoka would not want to bring this arrogant guy to make himself feel uncomfortable.

Moreover, the helm of a film company like Guang'an Matsuoka is far more transparent than those pure filmmakers in the bureau.

What film critics, what mainstream media, these are false, the box office is the real one.

Since Matou Shinji has the ability to convert investment into box office, he is the most powerful director.