Chapter 238: Four Movies Released in One Year, Getting on the Right Track

Chapter 238 Four movies released in one year, the era of light and shadow on the right track

The "Pirates of the Caribbean" series has reached the third part, which is already a familiar thing for Wu Yuan and the crew members.

The actors are all veteran actors who have worked together in the first and second parts.

There is no need for any running-in. After putting on makeup, everyone can immediately get into the role state.

Including Liu Yifei, although she is a new actor, she and Wu Yuan are so familiar with each other that they sleep in the same bed. Wu Yuan certainly won't feel any strangeness towards her.

From the first day of the start of filming, the filming of "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" was extremely smooth and was on the fast track from the beginning.

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

The filming of this movie also provides an excellent job opportunity for the temporary actors' union in Hollywood.

Just one week after the start of filming, more than 7,000 people have signed up to play in the group performance of this movie. The huge crowds of people are unprecedented and a spectacular scene that Hollywood has never seen before.

The second film's $1 billion box office is enough to make the entire Hollywood pay attention to this sequel.

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

The producers, directors, actors and crew members who started filming with anticipation had to bear the pressure.

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

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

"The Good, the Bad, the Weird", which was completed in January, has successfully completed the post-editing work and can be submitted for review.

Zhang Guorong led more than 200 cast and crew members from the crew, from the Gobi Desert in Gansu to the grasslands in the northeast, and even rented a real steam train, and finally filmed this Chinese western.

Huang Bo, Liu Ye, and Xu Jinjiang, three outstanding actors, jointly handed in a paper that Zhang Guorong was extremely satisfied with.

The story of this movie is actually very simple. It is a big robbery caused by the treasure and treasure map left by the Qing Dynasty outside the Great Wall.

Three horse bandits with different personalities, coincidentally, set their sights on the treasure map in the hands of the Japanese devils, and then met when robbing the Japanese devils on the train.

For this treasure map, the three people tacitly chose to cooperate, and fought each other, maintaining the bottom line of fighting but not breaking, resulting in a series of humorous stories.

In the end, they did not find the so-called Qing treasure, but accidentally destroyed an evil action planned by the Japanese devils in Manchuria, hiding their merits and fame.

The story is actually very old-fashioned, full of classic plots of westerns, which can be said to be a tribute or an imitation.

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

Referring to Wu Yuan's suggestion, Zhang Guorong himself also played a cameo role in the film, a small town tavern owner with a not-so-heavy role.

This is prepared for the Korean market. When the Light and Shadow Era releases "The Good, the Bad, the Weird" in Korea, it can be labeled as Zhang Guorong's self-directed and self-acted film, which can attract many Korean movie fans to the cinema.

After the film editing was completed, Light and Shadow Era submitted it for review as soon as possible.

Because the director is a director from Hong Kong Island, the review of this film was also very smooth. In addition, the subject matter was a satire on the Japanese army, so it was easy to get the dragon mark.

So even though she knew 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 this film.

Not just this film.

Several other films in the first phase of the Light and Shadow Era's Young Director Support Program have also been filmed one after another, leaving only Xue Xiaolu's "Ocean Paradise" to be filmed.

Xue Xiaolu wanted to invite Jet Li to play the leading actor. After reading the script, Jet Li was also moved by the script and was even willing to star in it for 0 pay.

After 30 years of acting, Jet Li, who has always been a kung fu star, wants to transform himself, and this art film is very much to his liking.

But his recent schedule is already full.

He had "The Warlords" to shoot before.

Yes, Chen Kexin still organized the "The Warlords" project, got investment, and invited three superstars, Jet Li, Liu Dehua, and Takeshi Kaneshiro, to co-star.

After the filming of "The Warlords", he immediately joined the "Forbidden Kingdom" crew.

Although the Double J plan was ruined, Huayi still pulled Jet Li and Chow Yun-fat to work on this project together. The role of Golden Swallow fell on Li Binbin, and the White-haired Witch became Fan Xiaopang.

Huayi really kept the fat water within the field this time, and left the two main female roles to its own artists.

The director of this movie, Rob Minkoff, is a real Kung Fu fan and a 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 in China", and "Enter the Dragon".

Even his wife is the 76th generation descendant of Confucius.

Originally, he wanted to invite Jackie Chan to star in this movie very much, and even the character in the script was tailored according to Jackie Chan's image in "Drunken Master".

But Jackie Chan still has "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" to shoot, and the "Kingsman" series is waiting on hand. To be honest, he really doesn't like the "Forbidden Kingdom" project.

Originally, Cheng Long was willing to take on the project of "The Forbidden Kingdom" because he could not get any more Hollywood film contracts after several Hollywood films failed.

As a second choice, "The Forbidden Kingdom" is indeed the best film contract he can get. At least it is a Sino-US co-production that will be released in North America.

But now the situation is different. Now Cheng Long has Wu Yuan to help him. It can't be said that it is a smooth road in Hollywood, but at least the development is on the right track. Of course, he doesn't look down on co-productions.

In desperation, under the pressure of investors from both China and the United States, Robert Minkoff had to agree to use Chow Yun-fat.

Fortunately, there is Jet Li. Rob Minkoff also likes his "Once Upon a Time in China" series. He is also very happy to work with this kung fu superstar.

"The Forbidden Kingdom" will start shooting in May, and Jet Li needs to focus on the work of this movie first.

So at least before October 2007, he had no time to act in "Ocean Paradise", and Xue Xiaolu had not found an actor suitable to play Jet Li's "son", so the preparation of this film was very slow.

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

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

Han Yan's "Who Will I Give My First Kiss to" will be released this month.

Cheng Er's "The Third Man" and Liu Meichuan's "Don't Knock on the Door" have been completed and successfully submitted for review.

Cheng Er's film did not touch on any sensitive areas and passed the review smoothly.

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

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 fact that the authorities have vigorously supported the development of the film industry in the past two years, the leaders of the General Administration pointed out a clear way.

Reshoot an ending, and the leading actors wake up in a mental hospital. It turns out that all this is a hallucination caused by their excessive mental pressure, which is imaginary.

Well, this is very scientific.

Liu Meichuan had to follow the guidance of the General Administration and call on the actors to reshoot such an 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.

Wu Yuan certainly didn't have any special requirements, and he didn't expect these movies to make money. He just wanted to support and cultivate new people.

"For the specific release arrangements, you can negotiate with Mr. Han."

"In recent years, there are more and more domestic films, and it is not so easy to get a good schedule. Don't be too demanding."

So, according to Wu Yuan's instructions, Li Xiaoping quickly set the release schedule for these movies with Mr. Han.

The most important and highly anticipated "The Good, the Bad, the Weird" is scheduled to be released on August 18 during the summer vacation.

This schedule is not bad, as there is only one movie "Secret" directed and acted by Jay Chou that was released before it.

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

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

"The Sun Also Rises" is the painstaking work of director Jiang Wenjin after five years, but it is an art film, and it is not in the same track as horror films like "Don't Knock on the Door", so there is no need to worry too much.

Cheng Er's "The Third Man" was scheduled to be released in June. June this year is completely an art film month. All the mainland movies released are art films. No one can sell the box office, so there is no need to worry about the box office market being eaten up by one movie.

The only one that may be more threatening is "Ghost Rider" starring Nicolas Cage, which is a Hollywood commercial blockbuster.

However, this movie was first released in North America in February, and then IMDb only scored 5.2 points. The North American box office performance was also average. It has been criticized as a bad movie. It is unlikely to sell well in the domestic market.

In addition to "Who Will I Give My First Kiss To" which will be released this month, this year, Guangying Times has four movies released in China!

Guangying Times, which has always maintained only 1-2 movies a year and has been a bit small-scale, has finally got on the right track and developed like a mature and professional large production company!

Li Xiaoping, who took over the company for less than two years, showed a gratified smile on her face.

It's a pity that Guangying Times will still miss the Lunar New Year file, the most important movie file in the mainland this year.

It would be great if Wu Yuan could have a finale movie to end Guangying Times at the end of the year.

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