Chapter 705 Infinite Horror

Even with a production budget of only $4 million for "Saw," Embassy Pictures and Sandsea Entertainment have prepared a fairly large premiere.

Compared to a mere $4 million production cost, Embassy Pictures spent a much larger $6 million on publicity and distribution.

Since 4,000 film copies have to be prepared, the cost of copy production, insurance and operation has cost more than 4 million US dollars in publicity and distribution.

The cost of film copies can be called a huge cost, especially for small-budget films.

A film with a production cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars wants to be released on a large scale, even if the investment in publicity is not counted, the cost of the film copy alone is several times the production cost.

In contrast, the cost of digital copying is much lower.

Even after the theater system is further networked, copies can be delivered directly through the network.

But looking at North America, there are very few digital theaters now.

At present, including the six major companies, DreamWorks and Relativity Entertainment, they are jointly promoting the reform of theaters and increasing the speed of popularization of digital projection equipment.

Although there are many conflicts among the major companies, and some even want to swallow each other, they cooperate sincerely in this matter.

Because this is the same for all companies.

"Saw" does not have any digital copies, and 4,000 film copies have already been delivered.

On the day of the premiere, almost all well-known Chinese directors in Hollywood came because of director James Wen.

Ang Lee put down the crew of "Brokeback Mountain" and came to the scene in person.

James Huang and his good friend Glenn Morgan came hand in hand.

Justin Lin, who has just signed a long-term contract with Shahai Entertainment and is determined to direct the "Fast and Furious" series, is also here.

In addition, Chinese stars such as Hu Kaili, Wen Mingna and Liu Yuling also came to the premiere.

A Chinese-American circle is forming in Hollywood.

"When it comes to cooperation, the first choice is Sandsea Entertainment."

In the premiere theater, Wen Ziren said to the people around him with a serious face: "Ronan and his company are willing to give us a fair chance to compete, as long as we can show our value, he will not do anything because of our identities. Unfair choice."

James Huang agrees: "It's not easy for us. It's very rare for us to have someone like Ronan in Hollywood."

Wen Mingna said softly: "If it wasn't for the role of Mulan, I would never have had the opportunity to cooperate with Disney."

These people, it can be said that it is rare for Hollywood to have a certain reputation of Chinese descent, standing together at this moment, all chatting about their own experiences, each of them is a bitter history.

For ordinary people, it is very difficult to get ahead in Hollywood, and it is even more difficult for Chinese Americans.

Ang Lee, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said: "About Ronan and Relativity Entertainment, I only want to say one thing. Without Ronan, I might be completely unemployed in Hollywood after "Hulk."

The highest rank and fame of these men,

That is Ang Lee.

Hearing him say that, the others were thoughtful.

Especially Justin Lin.

Switching to other companies, it would be difficult to use a new Chinese director like him who is not a newcomer in such a film with above-average investment.

Opportunities are rare and must be seized.

The gathered crowd dispersed one after another. Justin Lin saw Ronan's position and quickly looked for it.

"Mr. Anderson." Justin Lin looked very polite: "Thank you for giving me the opportunity to direct the "Fast and Furious" series."

Ronan smiled and waved his hands: "You should thank the producer."

Justin Lin knew that his immediate boss, Jessica Felton, was deeply trusted by Ronan, so he quickly said, "I would like to express my thanks to Miss Felton."

Ronan nodded: "Justin, Director Huang and Director Wen jointly recommended you. What's your vision for the style of the movie?"

Justin Lin said as simply as possible: "This should not be a simple drag racing movie. If the main plot is limited to drag racing, there may be a certain market in North America, but the overseas audience will be less."

"It makes sense." Ronan gave encouragement at the right time.

Justin Lin continued: "I think it should combine drag racing, action, crime and gunfights. "Fast and Furious" is an action movie with strong car elements!"

Ronan approves: "I hope you can bring a masterpiece."

The "Fast and Furious" series, in the hands of Shahai Entertainment, will be getting closer and closer to mainstream Hollywood commercial films.

Justin Lin saw someone coming to find Ronan, and left at the right time.

Ronan and Ang Lee got together and chatted about the post-production and promotion of "Brokeback Mountain".

All filming of this film has ended. Perhaps it was a warning from Shahai Entertainment through the agent, or perhaps it was a sudden realization. As the biggest uncertain factor for the crew, Heath Ledger did not cause any trouble and went smoothly. I finished filming all his scenes.

As for what will happen to Heath Ledger in the future, Ronan can't control that much. Instead, he feels that Jack Gyllenshire is good. If there is an opportunity, he can continue to cooperate.

Ang Lee also introduced to Ronan a Hong Kong director named Ronnie Yu, who was the director of the "Freddy vs. Jason" released by New Line last year.

The director from Hong Kong City has accepted James Shams' invitation to direct the movie "Lust, Caution" adapted from that novel.

According to Ang Lee, James Shams couldn't get investment in Hollywood, so he went to Hong Kong City and Baodao to look for investment there.

His status as a Hollywood producer is very good, and it is said that he has attracted a Hong Kong actor who is ready to join the crew.

In this era, Hollywood movies can effectively improve the quality of oriental film companies or actors.

The most typical Miss Lizao is a proper international superstar in the Eastern media.

But Ms. Lizao also had moments of dizziness. She and another international superstar from the East took over the film adaptation of the island country's works produced by Spielberg.

Hollywood producers, even directors and producers like Spielberg who are well versed in the rules of the market, obviously don't understand many things on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, and they made a thankless movie.

Perhaps after ten years, Spielberg will not make such a dizzy decision.

Time will tell many things.

For example, on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, a master needle user was abused by countless people as vicious, but after more than ten years, people suddenly discovered that the master is indeed a master, and his vision is really poisonous. Injustice.

Compared with those three, Lizao seems to be a good person.

Those things on the beach are really nothing in the context of Hollywood.

Think about my cousin...

Entering the theater, Ronan and Wen Ziren sat together and had a brief chat with Wen Ziren. Wen Ziren is a very thoughtful director who wants to plan a new horror film project.

Wen Ziren and Shahai Entertainment also have a long-term contract, and of course Ronan has to support it, but no matter what horror film project, it has to wait for Wen Ziren to complete the filming of the "Chain Saw" trilogy and succeed.

With the successful trilogy as a foreshadowing, change to a more reliable horror film director later, follow the inherent pattern, and make another four or five films, no problem at all.

Wan Ziren will also be freed from the "Chain Saw" series and continue to develop the territory of similar horror projects of Relativity Entertainment.

Ronan intends to wait until the release of "Iron Man" to have a good talk with Wen Ziren about the vision of the movie universe.

According to the normal development, this Chinese director has great potential in the field of commercial films.

Its commercial value and the profits it can bring far surpass even that of Ang Lee, a former great director of Chinese descent.

The film began to be screened, because of the influence of the first film, especially the rental data that has been firmly in the top ten in North America this year, bringing more audiences to the series.

The premiere script was sold out.

The murderous "Jigsaw" is back with a newer and weirder killing game.

But compared to the first one, the plot of the second one is still a bit weak even though Wen Ziren is in charge of directing it himself.

The first Chainsaw, the suspense other than horror won the film a lot of praise and excellent reputation, especially the moment Tobin Bell stood up, which caused countless people to exclaim.

Now, the jigsaw is no longer a secret, and the film can only focus on the actions of this perverted murderer, and the suspense is greatly reduced.

But the audience has higher enthusiasm and expectations.

Even if the first surviving Amanda became a jigsaw disciple, it created some suspense, and the film's reputation would still decline.

Compared with the first tense, complicated, thrilling plot, which gradually unraveled the mystery through flashbacks, the sequel is a lot more straightforward, because the veil of mystery is removed and the murderer is known, and the impact is naturally halved.

What if the suspense is not enough? Then use cruelty and blood to make up.

The biggest guarantee of the sequel is the absolutely double bloody and tortured new method.

It's traditional Halloween soon, and the film must satisfy the audience's bloodthirsty Halloween wishes.

Of course, "Chain Saw 2" still has a strong enough appeal for horror film lovers.

The movie is like a role-playing game. It not only tells the development of the case from the perspective of the victim, but also allows the audience to be on the scene through this perspective, feel the pain with the victim, and search for clues together with the victim. Escape from birth.

All kinds of unknown elements, horrific and cruel tortures, and splattered blood plasma can arouse infinite terror.

During the screening, exclamations kept coming.

Perhaps in the eyes of audiences like Ronan who have an oriental movie-watching mentality, the film is more bloody and disgusting, but North American horror film authorizations are often frightened out of their wits by such plots.

As for whether Jigsaw is a perverted murderer or a just punisher, it doesn't really matter.

The film still brings up the debate in this regard.

Groups that probably hold two views will continue to spray each other on the Internet or other places, and continue to create topics for discussion.

This is the debate that the film needs.

It would be great if the two sides could fight each other.