Chapter 1053 It's You!
In fact, Minghu Culture has no shortage of directors, but it lacks great directors with an international perspective.
Moreover, after the foundation has been firmly established, the current Minghu culture is running at full capacity like a machine with full horsepower. The burdens on the directors' shoulders are not light, and there are a lot of tasks.
Regardless of TV dramas, this year's movies alone, there are a total of five works planned to be released by Minghu Culture, among which "Crazy Racing" is currently being screened, and the works planned to be filmed this year are already planned. As many as seven.
This does not include "Transformers", does not include "Kung Fu Panda" which is still being filmed, and does not include the first film shooting plan of the two new directors who are still being evaluated by the film and television department.
The focus of Han Shunzhang's first film directorial work "Police Story" is to introduce another newcomer actor from Minghu Culture, named Chen Haodong. It has already been launched after the Spring Festival, and it is expected to be completed in May. It will be released around Christmas and New Year's Day.
Jin Han's "A Chinese Ghost Story" is currently in the post-production stage. This is definitely going to get the summer file to meet the Hollywood blockbusters head-on. Jin Han has full confidence in his work, but he has made it clear that even if it is box office No matter how successful, he will not direct the sequel.
But once a movie is successful, a sequel is almost inevitable. The current plan is for Fang Baijin, who has supervised two films for Jin Han, this great talent in Li Qian's heart, to direct the second part of "A Chinese Ghost Story". And if there are no accidents, as soon as the box office results of Jin Han's "A Chinese Ghost Story" come out, preparations for the second part will start over there, and filming will start in August or September at the latest.
As for Jin Han, although he declined "Transformers", he is the most powerful among the directors of Minghu Culture and has a certain international vision, so everyone has discussed it before, and he also agreed to the next step I will go to the United States to stay for a year, and be responsible as a producer to produce a Sino-foreign joint venture, that is, a film jointly invested and produced by Minghu Culture and Columbia. To succeed again, this way to enter the international stage is almost inevitable.
In the past, going to Hollywood to make a movie, or going to Europe to win an award, can be understood as gold-plating, that is, raising your social status and proving your achievements. Up to now, this aspect may not be so important, but after doing it in the Chinese market, It will be very valuable for a successful Chinese director to go out and participate in international cooperation, learn about Hollywood production methods and production processes, and even understand many subconscious film ideas in the minds of Hollywood filmmakers. .
If Chinese films want to go global, they must first understand other parts of the world.
Therefore, after Jin Han rejected "Transformers", Li Qian planned to let him, who had always wanted to make a "real action movie" and wanted to try "sharp editing", make a real action blockbuster.
"Bourne Bourne"!
At that time, He Yingyu will be thrown over there, and she will act as the heroine to consolidate her reputation in Europe and the United States.
Of course, this is the first time for Jin Han to work on this type of film, and he still has to work with a group of Chinese and Hollywood joint filming teams. Li Qian will be a little worried, so when the time comes, he plans to help him to watch it. On the one hand, he is also preparing to ask John Days to be his producer in the past.
With John Dess, an old fritter with both ability and skill, helping Jin Han, he can rest assured that he only needs to watch Jin Han make a movie and he will be fine.
In addition to Jin Han, Zhao He's "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" is also currently filmed and is in post-production, but this film is not planned to be arranged in the summer file. The distribution department plans to arrange it in September Maybe it will be released in October——Zhao He is a little bit unhappy. After all, although his last film "Shaolin Temple" has a lower box office than "Once Upon a Time: A Man Should Be Self-Reliant", it is still not low. However, he was advised by the distribution department to avoid the summer vacation. files.
Zhao He is an honest person, and he is very down-to-earth in doing things, but it is even more difficult to greet an honest person if he loses his temper. Although the "Journey to the West" series is the outline of the story proposed by Li Qian, and the basic setting and direction of the whole story , but the outline was worked out bit by bit by Zhao He and the screenwriter team.
If the "Once Upon a Time" series was created by Li Qian, "Huang Feihong: A Man Should Be Self-improvement" is Zhao He's success with the whole series, and "Shaolin Temple" is also relying on Zhou Baoshan to sell well, then he believes that this "Journey to the West" , should be able to largely be classified as your own exclusive work.
As long as this movie is successful, I can prove my ability.
As a result, "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" could not compete with Jin Han's "A Chinese Ghost Story". Although Zhao He was not angry, he was somewhat angry, so he asked the second film to be put into production immediately.
After seeing the rough cut of "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons", Li Qian nodded in agreement.
Therefore, in April and May of this year, the second part of the "Journey to the West" series, which is finally named "Journey to the West: Mrs. Bone", will start filming.
Well, to put it another way, Zhu Qiang, who played the role of Tang Sanzang in the movie, is already fully booked this year.
There is no need to find outside film appointments. This year, the three productions of Minghu Culture alone have basically taken up almost all of his time throughout the year-from the start of the film last September, to this year's New Year's Day, to the In mid-January, "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" just wrapped up. After taking a breather, the filming of "Journey to the West: Mrs. Bones" will start. Assuming the schedule starts in April, if the filming ends in August, then the second part of "A Chinese Ghost Story" will follow. It is about to be connected, and this time, it will be filmed until the end of the year.
Then, there is Feng Bicheng.
"Crazy Stone" is still in theaters, but when he came back after the promotion, he had already talked with Li Qian about the plan for the new movie, and Li Qian had read the script a few days ago, and only adjusted a few places. It was signed and approved-the script outline and character design were originally provided by him.
The name of Feng Bicheng's new movie is called "Speeding Gossip".
Well, the male lead is Zhou Zhiyu. As for the female lead, Jin Han strongly recommends it, and Li Qian also thinks it is quite suitable—mainly because she is young, and she will look very young in modern dramas—so she decided on "A Chinese Ghost Story". "The actress who was discovered by Jin Han to play Nie Xiaoqian, Lu Xiaosu.
Well, this is a very interesting and fun girl.
Li Qian has been in touch with her a few times. This girl has an offbeat and interesting personality, and she is completely different from the Nie Xiaoqian she played in "A Chinese Ghost Story". Therefore, Li Qian believes that she should be able to play the young unmarried mother who is good at singing and dancing in "Speeding Gossip".
By the way, she said it herself, her original name was not Lu Xiaosu, it was just because she was too noisy since she was a child, and later her father was really unbearable, so he changed her name to Lu Xiaosu——In the Three Kingdoms, Lu Suna It is the second governor of Soochow, and it is said that he is diligent and seldom speaks, so Lu Xiaosu's father hopes to use this name to suppress her daughter, so that she will not talk so much in the future.
Well, of course, it didn't work out too well.
In addition to "The Bourne Shadow", this year's joint production project between Minghu Culture and Columbia also has a love-themed movie. Li Qian also plans to use this movie to send another director to the world, and then the heroine will also Take it down by the way.
Minghu Culture is best at romance movies, of course Lu Lingxi.
As for the heroine, Qin Jingjing is tentatively selected.
Well, Li Qian has already revised the current script of this drama, which is called "The Love Between Humans and Ghosts Is Unfinished".
In addition, Minghu Culture plans to invest in two other films this year. One is to participate in the investment. The director is a new film by Guan Ziping, the director of last year's hit "A Happy Event", which will be invested 70% by Lehe Film Company. , enjoy the copyright, Minghu Culture invests 30%, and enjoys the global distribution rights.
Well, after "A Happy Event" proved his ability to make comedy, Guan Ziping changed his approach. This time it is an action movie. The movie is tentatively named "License to Kill" and the total planned investment is 50 million yuan.
The heroine of the movie is currently invited to Qin Jingjing.
The other play is interesting, it is called "Blowing Bragging Makes People Progress", it is a book written by Mu Xiaoshuai, the head of the screenwriting team of Minghu Culture Film and Television Department, Han Shunzhang solemnly recommends it, and Jin Han admires it highly , Feng Bicheng hopes to save it for himself to shoot next year, and Li Qian is also full of praise after watching it.
But Mu Xiaoshuai said that he hopes he can be a director and make this book out.
As a graduate of the screenwriting department of the 93rd grade of Shuntian Film Academy, he has joined Minghu Culture for four or five years and has been the head of the screenwriting team. Mu Xiaoshuai's qualifications and qualifications are all there. Of course, Li Qian has no reason to insist We wanted to stop him from filming by himself, but we just planned to send Sun Yuting, who had a little more experience than him, to be his assistant director, so that he, who was a screenwriter, would not be able to control the crew.
As for the actors of this play, he also left it to him to choose.
As a result, he came to the door one by one with the script, and almost effortlessly convinced every actor he wanted-the three leading actors, Huang Ge, Liu Zhongxin, and Zhong Yuanfu. The only important female character, Lu Lingxi.
With such a book, the three actors he was looking for, Li Qian knew when he read the planning book, Mu Xiaoshuai really has a plan in his heart, and he is very stable!
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The company's production plan for this year was in a mess in his mind. At a certain moment, Li Qian stopped, then he sat up straight, tapped his fingers rhythmically on the tea table for about half a minute, then picked up the phone, Make a call to go.
"That 'Transformers' we're going to do with Columbia, you know that, right?"
"Ang, I know, what's wrong?"
"If I say, I want to hand it over to you to shoot, directly shoot the 3D version, do you dare?"
"Then why dare not?"
"It starts with an investment of at least 200 million U.S. dollars. Maybe it can reach 250 million U.S. dollars, which is comparable to "Avatar". If you lose money, you will..."
"Don't worry! You still don't know me? I never knew how to write fear words! At worst, if you hit the street, I will help you for the rest of your life! Can you give me a meal?"
"Really not afraid?"
"Don't be afraid!"
"Okay! That's you!"
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At the beginning of March, Minghu Culture officially announced that it would prepare for the establishment of Feng Bicheng's personal studio and He Yingyu's personal studio. Immediately afterwards, Liu Chengzhang announced that he had signed a contract with Minghu Culture. The brand-new Liu Chengzhang personal studio is affiliated with Minghu Culture.
So far, Minghu Culture has successively announced that there are as many as seven personal studios to be established and affiliated, namely: Feng Yumin, Jin Han, Han Shunzhang, Bai Yujing, Liu Chengzhang, He Yingyu and Feng Bicheng.
At this point, many people in the industry predicted that it was a foregone conclusion for Zhou Baoshan to leave Minghu Culture.
Many people gloated, thinking that an international superstar that Li Qian had worked so hard to hold up, actually ran away without being held in prison. Some people analyzed that it should be that the two parties did not agree on the remuneration for the sequel of "The Matrix" , That's why Zhou Baoshan decided to leave Minghu Culture, and Minghu Culture had to temporarily shelve the sequel plan of "The Matrix" because the actor couldn't get it right.
In short, there is everything to say.
As for "The Matrix", a super blockbuster with the second highest box office in the world, the sequel plan was temporarily put on hold, countless people in the industry sighed: I think the two sides are really stupid! Zhou Baoshan's asking price is lower, and Minghu Culture offers a higher price, so it's over, everyone cooperates to make money!
The result is good, now that the sequel plan has been put on hold, Minghu Culture has put a movie that is more profitable than the "Once Upon a Time" series in vain, which is not easy to shoot, and although Zhou Baoshan has left and is free, he has also lost this ability that can help him consolidate. The best-selling series with global film status!
But at this moment, just after the founding ceremony of the studios of Liu Chengzhang, Feng Bicheng and He Yingyu, in March 2006, Minghu Culture held several press conferences, announcing intensively the next production plan—— These plans were released one after another, and countless people in the industry were dumbfounded.
Among them, "Transformers", which will be jointly invested and filmed by Columbia and Minghu Culture, made everyone dumbfounded and shouted that they couldn't understand——
The live-action movie "Transformers" is planned to have a total investment of 230 million U.S. dollars, of which Columbia Films will invest 180 million U.S. dollars and Minghu Culture will invest 50 million U.S. dollars. The movie will use 3D like the already completed "Avatar" -IMAX plus 2D synchronous way to shoot, the main shooting locations will be in many countries around the world.
The producers of the film are Li Qian and John Days, and the director of the film has directed the third part of "Princess Returning the Pearl", but for many years it has mainly been the assistant director of Li Qian's film. Sun Yuting, who appears in the cast and credit list.
A...little...television director!
Jumping to directing a super big production with an investment of more than 200 million US dollars!
After seeing the name Sun Yuting and figuring out who she is, whether it is China or Hollywood, everyone feels that they can wait to see the jokes.