Chapter 1125 Shocking Production! !

Back to The Terminator.

The promotion of Disney TV Channel is only part of the overall promotion.

Before filming, Yin Jun asked Cameron to visit the IMAX company. After the Canadian returned to his hometown, he was full of praise for IMAX's technology. He was also impressed by what Yin Jun said about using IMAX for filming. Hands approve.

Anyway, the money is not paid by oneself. It would be best to use the boss’s money to experiment with new technologies.

IMAX's first commercial film application also caused Cameron's shooting speed to be very slow.

The "Terminator" project began in June last year, and all resources were deployed in June. However, Cameron filmed for six months and was only completed at the end of December.

Then starting in January, "Terminator" began to produce post-production special effects in the digital field special effects company, and the final editing was not completed until the end of March.

In other words, in fact, when preparing for the release, the production team there was still working overtime. They just edited various promotional clips in advance for promotional use.

Fortunately, Cameron is not stuck yet, and he is not the super director of "I am the King of the World", so he knows that Yin Jun is scheduled to be released in early April, and he has been staying up all night since the post-production, and he has also stepped up to work on it. Editing, the entire team worked more than sixteen hours a day!

Don't think that Americans are selfless. Any work beyond working hours requires overtime pay, which can be doubled or tripled.

Therefore, when the final edited version of the film was released, the production cost of 20 million US dollars was completely spent, and an additional 10 million US dollars was overspended!

Cameron is happy because he not only controls the overall situation of the crew, but also participates in post-production and takes the biggest ideas himself.

More importantly, he actually got the final editing rights. After "Heaven's Gate" caused harm to United Artists Film Company, this greatest power, which was more cautiously taken back by the Hollywood Seven, was actually trusted by Yin Jun. It made him moved and full of energy.

In a way, the reason why Cameron spent so much money on the film is precisely because he felt that he could only earn Yin Jun's trust by making "Terminator" the best.

As for money and so on, that will be discussed later. Making a good movie is the most important thing.

Okay.

The original production cost of "Terminator" was only around US$7 million.

The filming of "Terminator" started a few years earlier, but the cost exceeded it by about 300%. If the depreciation of currency value is included, the cost overrun was a full 400%!

Although the cost of shooting the IMAX version has increased significantly, the increase is too shocking.

This is still the production cost. Yin Jun also generously allocated 20 million US dollars for publicity expenses for the global market, of which 10 million US dollars was allocated to North America, the first market to be released.

The company that produced "Terminator" in the previous life was just a second-rate small production company. Even Cameron had to give up his director's salary and dividends in order to give himself full control over everything, but in the end he almost didn't even have production fees. Can get it together.

Why else do you think they would choose Arnold Schwarzenegger who only has the body? Isn't it just because he is cheap?

The production company in the previous life could not even raise the production costs, let alone the publicity costs, so "Terminator" was basically released with a small amount of publicity, and then through word-of-mouth, it finally became a smash hit. It grossed US$40 million at the box office and made a small profit of around US$6 million.

Then in terms of subsequent DVDs and global copyrights, I made tens of millions in a few years.

It was only with these tens of millions of profits and the fact that special effects technology had reached the point that Cameron hoped to achieve that "Terminator 2" was released seven years later and "Terminator" was created. 》This super IP!

This life is different.

Yin Jun told Cameron from the beginning, do it seriously and do your best.

Truck Driver is so stubborn. Although he is not a big director yet, he has spent a total of 20 million U.S. dollars in budget, and also spent another 10 million U.S. dollars in production costs. With such courage, even Tang Shuxuan was a little worried for him.

However, Yin Jun had already told Tang Shuxuan that all of Cameron's requests would be fulfilled as long as they could be met. That's why Tang Shuxuan gave the money so simply, but he was also worried about what would happen to this young man after he screwed up. What will be the outcome?

Do you think Cameron is worried?

It depends on when.

During filming and post-production, he never thought about this matter at all and never considered it.

When the post-production was completed and the final edited version came out, and Yin Jun was asked to come over and take a look, he felt a little guilty.

For this reason, he specially called Schwarzenegger, thinking that if he was scolded, the future son-in-law of the Kennedy family could help distract the fire.

Yin Jun didn't scold him at first. Instead, he sat in an IMAX screening room specially vacated by the Kirin North American Cinemas. He called the theater directors from Disney and United Artists, as well as Robert Iger, Wu Siyuan and others. Together, we watched this "Terminator".

As a super blockbuster that will be called the best science fiction film of the 20th century in the future, although "Terminator 1" is not as stunning as the liquid robot in the second film, and not as evil as the beautiful female liquid robot in the third film, it is The significance of its own existence is extraordinary.

This is the first time that someone has made a robot that looks like a human, and then during the fight, it looks like half man and half machine. This refreshing design gives people a powerful and shocking viewing experience. .

Schwarzenegger, who has always been half-red but not black, became famous in one fell swoop, laying the foundation for his glory for the next 40 years.

Some people have said that if Schwarzenegger didn't have so many fans, he would not have been able to promote him to the position of governor of California simply because of his status as the son-in-law of the Kennedy family.

Others have said that if one day, the U.S. Congress amends the bill and agrees that "Americans born outside the United States can run for president," then it will definitely be prepared for Schwarzenegger.

It is a pity that Schwarzenegger's trip as governor of California did not bring him many bonus points. On the contrary, it made people think that his ability to govern was relatively mediocre, which can be regarded as ending his path to the presidency.

If a person can achieve such great prestige and fame by acting in movies, Schwarzenegger is definitely the first person in the world.

Reagan is not included. He is just a relatively famous actor, and he is more famous as president than as an actor.

What "Terminator" achieved was also the God of Cards.

Although Cameron's most famous movie is definitely not "The Terminator", this science fiction film, which is full of imagination and has excellent sound and shadow effects, allowed Hollywood to see his outstanding abilities, which gave him the opportunity to direct more in the future. Multiple movie opportunities.

So it can be seen that the success of "Terminator" is actually far greater than the success of the movie itself. The meaning it brings to the movie world is also extraordinary and unique.

In this life, as the first audience other than the director and production staff to see the final cut of the new "Terminator", Yin Jun watched it very seriously.

But Yin Jun didn't feel the same kind of wonder and uproar like several others when he saw the terrifying robots killing everyone.

He watched quietly until the final subtitles appeared.

This made Cameron and Schwarzenegger very uneasy.

To be honest, when Cameron produced the final edited version, he invited Schwarzenegger and others to watch it. Everyone on the crew liked it very much and felt that it would definitely achieve good box office results.

But it's a movie that everyone obviously likes, but why is there no reaction from Yin Jun?

Even though Yin Jun is the screenwriter and all the plots of the script have already appeared in his mind, the shock of this real movie light and shadow effect should not be comparable to what he imagined in his mind.

"Boss, what do you think?" Cameron swallowed his saliva and asked with some trepidation.

He was originally confident, but Yin Jun's reaction made him lose confidence.

"very good."

Yin Jun nodded, and then a smile appeared on his face: "James, you did not disappoint me. You completed this script very well!"

call……

You should have told me earlier!

Cameron let out a long breath.

At this time, Wu Siyuan and Robert Egger, who were standing next to them, had the courage to congratulate Cameron and praise him for his good shooting. Yin Jun had not said anything before. If they went to congratulate him, what if the boss felt that the shooting was not good? , that was really bad, so they had endured it before.

Naturally, Yin Jun did not say any polite words.

After watching "Terminator" several times in my previous life, I felt that the effects and backgrounds were still a bit rough. That was "Terminator 2" that was really good.

But in this life, Cameron used an IMAX camera and spent four times the price to produce a work that is definitely a work of conscience.

Not only is the overall style very modern, but the richness of the characters and the compactness of the plot are even better.

Especially the special effects technology, including the various shapes of the T800, all have a completely realistic feeling. Especially when the T800 is injured during the fight and reveals half of its ferocious machine face, coupled with the IMAX screen, the effect looks very shocking. .

And when it breaks its legs and crawls forward on the ground, trying to kill the heroine, the creepy sense of urgency presented by the entire giant screen is also very commendable.

Of course, if you want to say whether there is any essential difference between the 30 million and the 7 million, there must be.

There was no IMAX version in the previous life.

That sense of urgency, as well as all kinds of exciting car chase scenes, it is definitely a very, very exciting feeling to watch in IMAX.

That huge, immediate impact is completely suffocating.

Compared with the ordinary version, the IMAX upgraded version is a real movie feast.

It’s no wonder that after watching an action movie in IMAX and 3D, many people lose their energy when watching an ordinary home theater version.

It's no wonder that all future super blockbusters, those with excellent special effects, will have such high box office results - if you don't go to the cinema, how can you enjoy such a perfect movie viewing experience?

It’s not on the same level at all!

Even if there is no 3D yet, just an IMAX screen is already amazing enough.

The audience today is much more blessed than the audience in another time and space!

You only need to look at the group of people in the film industry who were stunned and amazed just now to know how much of an impact this will have on the general audience!

You know, the heads of the theatrical distribution departments of Disney and United Artists were a little dismissive of IMAX before, thinking it was a waste of money!

Now that I have seen the IMAX version of "Terminator", I think they will never say this nonsense again.