Chapter 460 Digital Virtual Actor

There are many beautiful female characters in "Heroes Company", and the most popular one is Angel Yan.

As the saying goes, "North of the Milky Way, my Yan is the most beautiful", which shows the fans' love for this character.

Although there is no "original party" of "Heroes Company" in this world, Jiang Heng has watched the original animation after all. If the makeup and styling of the actors do not reach the level in the comics, he will not be able to accept it.

So after thinking about it, he is ready to play a little innovation in this film.

That is, instead of real actors, "virtual characters" are used to play Angel Yan, Kesha, He Xi and other roles.

The advantage is that these characters can be made "absolutely beautiful", and the disadvantage is naturally time-consuming and labor-intensive, and the cost is skyrocketing.

Fortunately, he has a "super microcomputer", so the problem is not big.

But Cheng Long and Zhou Xingxing can hardly think of these, and they thought Jiang Heng was going to hold a large-scale audition again.

"You are going to expand the beauty team of iQiyi, Youku and Tencent again!" Cheng Long took a sip of wine and laughed a little weirdly.

He was very popular with women when he was young, and now Jiang Heng is more popular than when he was young, so I don't believe that Jiang Heng would be so honest.

As for Zhou Xingxing, although he has never married and gives the outside world a very "affectionate" appearance, he actually has a girlfriend.

"The most beautiful girls in the Chinese entertainment industry are all under Director Jiang!" Zhou Xingxing said with envy.

Jiang Heng said: "I don't plan to hold an open audition. I plan to use some new technology this time!"

"New technology?"

Cheng Long and Zhou Xingxing were a little surprised, because the last "new technology" was the "3D" viewing mode, and the visual effect was indeed subversive.

So far, there have been several films with a global box office of more than 2 billion US dollars.

Jiang Heng said: "Well, I plan to launch a few digital virtual actors!"

If it was just surprise, then Cheng Long and Zhou Xingxing at this moment can only be described as astonishment.

Digital virtual actors, they can understand a few Chinese characters and the general meaning, but they just feel confused.

Because there are so many handsome men and beautiful women in the entertainment industry, although big-name stars are paid very high, it really doesn't cost much to hire new and beautiful actresses.

"Why do you want to do this?" Cheng Long asked directly.

Jiang Heng said: "How should I put it? In this movie, I want to create a few characters that almost all men think are extremely beautiful!"

"Oh, it seems that I have to use virtual ones!" Zhou Xingxing sighed.

After all, when he was young, he had worked with too many popular beautiful artists. Perhaps because he saw too many, he really didn't think any of them were breathtakingly beautiful.

Cheng Long said with some regret: "No matter how beautiful she is in virtual reality, it's fake!"

Jiang Heng smiled and said, "Real or fake, it doesn't matter to me!"

Cheng Long smiled and said: "That's right, there is no shortage anyway?"

Jiang Heng laughed and didn't respond.

...

He stayed in Hong Kong for a week, during which time he attended the new film press conference of "The Mermaid" in Hong Kong.

Because there is still some time before the Chinese New Year, this press conference can only be regarded as a pre-promotion.

They just found some main creators and called a group of reporters to talk about the stories during the filming of the film, and then released a few short video clips.

But with only these contents, the media has already made a general evaluation of "The Mermaid", a mid-to-high-quality work!

Because this film is influenced by the language and culture of the mainland, the protagonists and scenes are all from the mainland, which can be said to have lost the Hong Kong flavor. Although there are some "nonsense" plots, it can also maintain the Hong Kong film style to a certain extent.

But judging from the content of the promotion, it seems that it is not as good as Zhou Xingxing's works in his peak period. As for the visual effects, it is not as good as Jiang Heng's special effects blockbusters, which is somewhat embarrassing.

Fortunately, the main box office of this film is not in Hong Kong, and it has long set its sights on the mainland market with broader market prospects.

Zhou Xingxing went there early to discuss the details of the promotion with Yu Dong.

Jiang Heng stayed for another two days before returning.

A few days later, he received an invitation letter from Huayi Films, inviting him to attend the premiere of "1942".

In the office, Jiang Heng held the invitation in his hand, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

Jing Tian, ​​who was sitting on the sofa, was puzzled, "What's your expression!"

Director Jiang smiled and said, "Nothing, I just feel that this world is really a huge grass-roots team!"

Jing Tian was even more confused after hearing this, not knowing why Jiang Heng said this and what he wanted to express.

"Is there anything wrong?"

"Then let me ask you, if you go to the movies with your friends during the Lunar New Year, do you want to watch the very tragic "1942" or a funny comedy movie?"

Jing Tian understood a little after hearing this, "I think it's likely to be a comedy!"

"Why?"

"The Lunar New Year is coming soon, of course we have to be happy!"

"So, I said that this world is a huge grass-roots team! Huayi is also a big company, but no one thought of this!"

In the previous life, "1942" was released on November 29, 2012, and the box office in the mainland was only 370 million.

Based on the production cost of 200 million, the loss is about 90 million.

One important reason is that the release date was not chosen correctly, because this film can no longer be called a tragedy, but a tragedy to be exact.

For many viewers, it is not easy to spend a year, and who doesn't want to be happy and cheerful during the Chinese New Year.

Therefore, once this film with huge investment and media's optimistic outlook was released, the box office performance was very irrational.

Lost in Thailand, which was originally scheduled to be released on December 21, was moved up to the 12th, earning 1.2 billion at the box office.

At this time and space, Lost in Thailand has already been released.

But the box office prospects of other companies' comedy Lunar New Year films, 1942, are still not very good.

But when Jiang Heng went to attend the premiere ceremony, Huayi's big and small Wangs and director Feng Xiaogang were all in high spirits.

Because this winter is Huayi's explosive year, many movies have been launched one after another, including 1942 during the Lunar New Year and Detective Dee: The Mystery of the Phantom Flame during the Spring Festival.

The two blockbusters combined, not to mention 2 billion box office, there will always be 1.5 billion or more!

After these two films make money, they will make more investment in films. Huayi will also be able to produce real special effects blockbusters in the future! Wang Zhonglei thought optimistically.

Feng Xiaogang also looked beaming, talking to the media, saying how many years he had prepared for this movie and how many years he had been preparing for it.

When asked by the media, Jiang Heng generously said that this was a very good film and that China needed such a film so that future generations would not forget that period of history.

At the dinner after the premiere, Mr. Wang and Director Feng expressed their gratitude, thinking that Jiang Heng's words were a strong recommendation to the audience, and the box office would definitely increase!

Jiang Heng secretly said in his heart: "What was the reason for choosing such a bad schedule!" (End of this chapter)