Chapter 1125 Another Film Festival
Liu Yifei has not officially shot Shen Xudong's movie, she has only heard about Shen Xudong's many scandals and hobbies...
Well, Shen Xudong doesn't have any special hobbies.
Compared to many great directors, he is definitely one of the more normal ones!
It is well known that Quentin Tarantino has a foot fetish. Take Uma Thurman for example. She was filmed moving her toes for more than a minute in "Kill Bill" and she was even naked in "Pulp Fiction" The feet danced that classic twisting dance;
Even when filming "Until Dawn", Quentin even acted in person, playing a character who sucked the tequila from Salma Hayek's feet...
There are many violent people in the Chinese film industry!
For example, Hou Hsiao-hsien...
When he first entered the film industry, he often got into fights. If he disagreed, he would call people outside to reason with his fists. After the fight, he would continue filming...
Later, when he became a director, he felt that he could no longer be so irritable, so he gave up his bad habit of fighting.
But when the filming didn't go well, he still couldn't control his temper and couldn't hit people, so he smashed doors and hammered walls, often leaving himself covered in bruises.
In fact, the same goes for Edward Yang...
When filming "The Murders on Kuling Street", the entire crew was Edward Yang's tool. To shoot this movie with NT$20 million, all it needed was centripetal force. This centripetal force required the tyranny of a tyrant, so the whole crew was naturally on tenterhooks...
Chen Guofu said something: Yang Dechang wanted to further cooperate with Chen Guofu, who had helped him revise the script of "Terrorists", but Chen Guofu refused: For the sake of our friendship, I still don't want to...
Shen Xudong rarely curses when filming, but that doesn't mean he has no temper. Sometimes, the prop team will make stupid mistakes, and he will even hit people...
In most cases, he is very rational...
Oh, Liu Yifei only stayed in "Mountains and Seas" for half a month - she had to audition for "The Beautiful Sister Who Always Treats Me to Dinner"...
The resources given by Shen Xudong are considered as rewards...
After all, she was acting for free, and she had learned and practiced the two words of losing face and sighing while stroking her head with her hands...
It should be noted that it was not Shen Xudong who took the initiative.
Xudong was a little confused at first. After all, they had known her for ten years and really regarded her as a friend...
Later...I got used to it...
After all, art exchanges are in no particular order. Some people, even though they have been in the industry for ten years, still have nothing. This requires more exchanges to make up for the previous vacancies!
I even have some regrets, why not earlier...
Fortunately, it's not too late now, but more indoctrination is needed... Diligence can make up for weakness!
Well, let's wait until "Total War" is finished.
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Last year's movie market already had a trend where word-of-mouth was king...
Although there are still 26 movies that have exceeded 500 million, the annual movie growth has only increased by 3.7% year-on-year. The 60 billion determined at the beginning of the year is still far away.
"Railway Tigers" was a disastrous failure;
The summer release of "Tomb Raiders" didn't do well at 670 million, and the main producer of "The Ferryman" and "Grand Trail" felt aggrieved and embarrassed...
What is particularly embarrassing is Feng Xiaogang's "I'm Not Pan Jinlian". After a series of incidents such as being moved, an open letter asking for film arrangement, and winning an award, it only received 480 million in the end.
——Various ghost fields in the later period...
It is still Tianmei's movies that are really popular and popular: "Welcome to the Dragon Restaurant", "Operation Mekong", "Hello BJ", "Total War: The Great Wall", and "Lovers 2" are just a few.
Many directors and investors were devastated.
Challenging Tianmei Media has become an almost impossible task!
The Spring Festival release of "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" gives people endless room for imagination - the pre-sale price was a whopping 160 million!
Moreover, the market price on New Year’s Day was as high as 980 million...
It's a pity that "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" became a stepping stone - the perfect stepping stone for "The Wandering Earth".
The latter's domestic box office was 4.227 billion yuan, and overseas revenue was 760 million yuan...
"Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" has a minimum guarantee of 2.8 billion - the guarantee will make it the laughing stock of the industry!
At the same time, the real cold winter of the film market has arrived: from the Spring Festival to June, for 5 months, no domestic film exceeded 800 million!
No one film won the single-week championship, all were monopolized by imported films!
During this period, Tianmei released four movies, "The Ming Dynasty: Miao Frontier", "Master of Memory", "Apostle Walker", "The Strange Stories of the Tang Dynasty: Hall of All Living Beings"...
The ones with the highest box office are "Walker" with 580 million, "The Strange Stories of the Tang Dynasty: Hall of All Living Beings" with 512 million, "Master of Memory" with 360 million, and "The Ming Dynasty: Miao Frontier" with 310 million...
Of course, they are all profitable projects and have a good reputation...
But the box office list in the first half of the year: "Xx: Return" and "Resident Evil: The Final Chapter" exceeded 1 billion, "The Wolverine 3" and "Kong: Skull Island" both exceeded 800 million, and "A Dog's Purpose" also exceeded 1 billion. 680 million…
Especially after "Fast and Furious 8" was released, the box office in the first four days was 1.352 billion!
Simply outrageous.
Looking at domestic films, "Father and Son", produced and starring Dapeng, just exceeded 200 million;
Lu Zhengyu's "The Master" was guaranteed a minimum of 300 million, and the box office barely exceeded 100 million; the "Big Three" series "The Great Protector" had a good reputation, but it still did not exceed 100 million;
The four movies in the May Day schedule all received good reviews, but they were defeated by the power of "Fast and Furious 8"...
In short, a large number of film and television companies have reduced projects, adjusted plans, or simply closed down.
Under this situation, the major film and television companies at the Shanghai International Film Festival have also kept a low profile, and the film and television companies that were crazy about issuing film lists have disappeared...
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Shen Xudong finished the filming of "Total War 2" at the end of May, and then began eight months of post-production work...
According to the plan, it will be released during the Lunar New Year next year!
Pretty good schedule.
After finishing filming, I was originally going to take a half-month vacation, and then received an invitation from the Shanghai International Film Festival...
To be honest, he didn't really want to go to the film festival. Just a few words and a few people every year didn't mean much.
However, this year is quite special - during the Belt and Road Film Week, Tianmei Media's investment in "What a Family" and "Long Way to Find a Child" were announced...
Both films are mainly invested by Tianmei Media and shortlisted for the venture capital unit of the Xiangshan Film Festival. Both works are controlled and invested by Tianmei Media...
Now that it's about to start, Shen Xudong, as the producer of the two movies, definitely needs to make an appearance - to cooperate with the work. After all, the Belt and Road Initiative is a policy, and cooperation in movies can also be considered a 'political achievement'.
Zhang Hongsen called specifically to ask him to come in person!
Shen Xudong could not find a reason to refuse, and Zhang Yi was the chairman of the jury of this Shanghai International Film Festival. Due to reasonable circumstances, Shen Xudong should also go and support him!
Therefore, the day after filming ended, Shen Xudong went directly to the Shanghai Film Festival, along with Ning Hao, Zhang Chiyu and Guo Fan - the three of them were going to attend a science fiction theme forum, and Guo Fan came over to watch the filming of "Walking Alone on the Moon" , "Walking Alone on the Moon", Zhang Chiyu is the director and Ning Hao is the producer...
In fact, the basic setting of "Walking Alone on the Moon" is actually extremely dark:
Shen Teng was initially pulled down without anyone noticing, which was actually a sharp mockery of the system;
The kangaroo's tail disturbs the cable, making Shen Teng mistakenly believe that there are still people alive on the earth, making this black color even more intense;
In the end, he took off and the meteorite appeared at the right time, taking this absurdity to the extreme...
This is the third time fate has laughed at him, because these three times, it was not his fault, he was just a destined unlucky guy!
But if you try to attach meaning, inspiration, and passion to this kind of thing, it will be very embarrassing...
Here’s the problem, if you don’t do this, the movie won’t be mainstream enough…