Chapter 619 Domestic!
Twentieth Century Fox wanted the key for a second round of screenings, but China Film did not agree.
"Pacific Rim" has a box office of 5,036 million in a single day, which makes Han Sanping, who is very happy about his success, see that this movie is expected to set another record.
In addition, China Film Group participated in the investment and production of this film.
The higher the box office of "Pacific Rim" is, the more money China Film will make, and the better its performance will be.
Therefore, he is currently focused on increasing the film schedule of "Pacific Rim", so how can he be willing to let "Life of Pi" get the key for a second round of screenings and separate films?
Not to mention "Life of Pi", he even wanted to squeeze in Zhang Yimou's "Three Guns".
However, Zhang Yimou is a national teacher after all, not some small director.
Not only was it more troublesome to operate, but it might also trigger a huge rhythm, so I didn’t take any action.
Although 5036W in a single day set a new record and made history.
However, it was not enough to satisfy Wang Shu.
This was also the reason why he was not directly excited after hearing Zhou Xiaofa's report.
In the original timeline, "Avatar" was released in mainland theaters on January 4, 2010, with a box office of 30.33 million on the first day, a single-day box office of over 56 million, and a box office of 260 million in the first week.
There is something fishy about these 260 million.
Because "Avatar" was released for 6 days, the box office has reached 230 million.
And the seventh day happens to be Sunday. If there are only 260 million in a week, then the box office on Sunday is only 30 million.
This box office trend and trend is completely unreasonable.
Not to mention that "Avatar" is a movie with a box office of over 1 billion.
The box office on Sunday in the first week was only 30 million, which is obviously unreasonable.
Although they keep saying that the ticket issuing machines in various places are malfunctioning, only 260 million are counted.
But according to the trend of "Avatar" box office exceeding 1 billion, the box office should have exceeded 300 million in the first week.
However, due to "some reasons", there are only 260 million.
In any case, compared to the record of "Avatar" in the original time, the record of "Pacific Rim" of 5036W in a single day is not enough.
However, "Pacific Rim" will be released at 6pm on the 18th after all. The popularity has not yet fully spread, and there is still room for growth.
Today is Sunday, December 20th.
If "Pacific Rim" can achieve a box office of more than 50.36 million today, then it is possible that the box office will be 7, 89, or even 1 billion.
Wang Shu’s little pearls are not in vain. With the soaring popularity, whether the effect will be great depends on the box office of "Pacific Rim" today.
If you want to achieve higher box office, you not only need small pearls, but also need supporting word-of-mouth and publicity.
Tianya Forum.
A post posted by a staff member of Wang Shu’s Yishu Company who pretended to be a staff member of BASE Special Effects Company attracted a lot of heated discussion.
At this moment, it has become a hot post.
Title: "The Chinese special effects team behind "Pacific Rim"!"
Content: "The 25-story-high robot battles giant monsters, participating in the common interests of machine fans and monster fans. Element is a much-anticipated blockbuster.”
< br>“Perhaps, many people don’t know that there are contributions from a group of Chinese special effects teams behind the scenes.”
“Having the honor to participate in such a film, in addition to improving my own production capabilities, I also A passionate young man’s dream came true.”
"In "Pacific Rim," I was mainly responsible for leading the environment and material department to complete the work assigned to us by Industrial Light and Magic. This was a huge challenge. On the one hand, we needed to obtain information provided by the director and customers in a timely manner, and Accurately understanding the effect they want, on the one hand, we have completely surpassed previous experience at the technical level."
"Material method. In this aspect, we mainly produced the textures of the machine clock and the textures of the big feet in the repair shop.”
“Although the background of the film is an era of high technology, the film is full of clumsy elements of the steam age. Maybe it’s Director Wang’s favorite style, which is similar to Hayao Miyazaki’s “Howl’s Moving Castle”. "
"The machine clock is used to calculate the last time. When monsters attack, each number is composed of a separate panel, which needs to be physically flipped every minute. We made basic textures. The biggest difficulty is to make different panel materials for each number, which requires each figure. The numbers and scratches on a panel are all different, which means we made hundreds of stickers just for those numbers."
" One of the robot's feet is enough to crush a person like an ant. Accuracy was the biggest difficulty we encountered when making the texture of the big feet. There are many close-up shots. To represent such a huge metal object, we must be accurate. Grasp the size of the texture details on the feet so that when people pass by the big feet, the proportions will not look strange and the robot’s size should be highlighted as much as possible.”
“Our job is even more difficult when it comes to digital backgrounds and environments.”
“Since the accuracy of rendering assets cannot meet the requirements of all shots in all angles, the first thing we have to do is to There are not enough shots to retouch, which is a huge workload.”
"For example, for the close-up of the big hands and feet, the compositing department will use existing assets to composite them. When they have completed the rough effect, they will send the single frame back to the digital background and environment department, and we will paint the details. When the effect is obtained Once confirmed, we will send the sequence of painted layers back to composition, allowing them to add new details. . This process will continue until the final effect is approved."
"The more tedious task is to create backgrounds for a large number of green screens, and Industrial Light and Magic also gave us a lot of freedom. We can independently design and create backgrounds for many shots."
"Industrial light. MoFa gave us the assets of the base scene. In many cases, we can use the existing assets to recombine them, skip the lighting department and directly render the sequence to the compositing department by the environment department. This shortens the process and can be completed very quickly. The background to some of the less important shots.”
“Among the several shots of my independent production environment, the most important ones are the appearance of the elevator and the control room.” The process of getting off the airport to the base shatterdome. This scene was completely designed by me. The client liked the effect of light and shadow changes when the elevator slides through the elevator shaft. I put dozens of display lights for the scene, and finally the client Compare Satisfied. Since it was raining heavily on the roof, the biggest difficulty was to add the effect of water accumulation on the elevator roof. After many tests, it was still difficult to achieve the real effect."
"I remember when I encountered a bottleneck, Uncle Nike. (CG director) all brought mineral water and poured it on the ground for me to observe. But in fact, there was both water and black oil on the top of the elevator. They have different reflection effects. It took me a lot of time to balance this effect. I also made a simple design for the fan in the elevator shaft. The special effects department also added some water dripping from above to make the whole picture rich and layered.”
“The appearance of the control room only has a few shots in the movie. will appear in the scene, so the customer also gave us a relatively large degree of freedom.”
“The control room is in the shape of an inverted trapezoid, and I compared the scene’s perception of the light based on part of the actual shooting. Sensitive, we have to grasp the scene well "One of the camera lenses needs to be moved far away from the control room, and the flash emitted by the robot also has a great impact on the light and shadow of the environment. I first created a basic lighting environment for compositing, and also created an additional light layer to simulate the effect of the flash. When the robot and scene were finally put together, these shots turned out perfectly. dazzle.”
“In industrial light and magic projects, there are often shots that have been made with great effort, only to be ruthlessly castrated by Director Wang. But this is work, in order to give the audience the most perfect enjoyment, We will also make choices. This project is of milestone significance for Base-FX. It proves our ability to complete such a difficult task and prepare for more difficult tasks in the future. The task has laid a solid foundation.”
“So, I am very grateful to Director Wang for giving us the opportunity to participate in the production of “Pacific Rim”!”
“Through this project, we have worked closely with Industrial Light and Magic. This world-renowned special effects company has learned a lot.”
“It has greatly improved its capabilities and business.”
"It can be said that director Wang's "Pacific Rim" invited us Chinese special effects teams to participate in the production. Although it was mainly industrial light and magic, we Chinese special effects teams learned a lot and accumulated a lot of experience. It has greatly promoted the great leap forward in the level of China’s special effects industry!”
“I believe that if there is another similar project, our Chinese special effects team can complete it alone!”
This post The appearance immediately sparked heated discussions.
I thought that the special effects of "Pacific Rim" were completed by Hollywood Industrial Light and Magic alone, but who would have thought that this was not the case.
Among them, there is also our Chinese special effects team!
Hiss~
Many viewers who have watched "Pacific Rim" were immediately confused, wondering when did our Chinese special effects team become so awesome?
Didn’t the big guys in the film and television industry keep saying that there is a gap of more than ten or twenty years between Hollywood and Hollywood?
Why did it become flat in the blink of an eye?
This news is really hard to believe.
But as more details are revealed, people gradually have to believe it.
For example, when Wang Shu was filming "Pacific Rim" in order to release it at the end of the year, he had to do post-production while filming.
Then the part that required post-production special effects was handed over to the BASE special effects company in Beijing, and Industrial Light and Magic sent people to provide guidance.
In this way, the post-production time is greatly accelerated.
This also shows that a large part of the post-production special effects of "Pacific Rim" was indeed completed by Chinese special effects companies.
As for the fact that Industrial Light and Magic sent people to provide guidance, it was basically ignored.
Because many people know that the level of special effects in China is indeed far behind that of Hollywood.
If it were said that all the post-production special effects of "Pacific Rim" were produced by BASE, no one would believe it.
It would make sense if Industrial Light and Magic directed BASE in the post-production of "Pacific Rim."
1L: "Damn it! So "Pacific Rim" had the participation of our Chinese special effects company? That's awesome!"
2L: "I have already gone to the cinema to watch this movie. The special effects are really good. Just because our Chinese special effects company participated in the production, I decided to buy another ticket and go to the cinema."
"Nothing else. The idea is to support our Chinese special effects and our Chinese special effects blockbusters!”
“I know some people will say that "Environment" "Pacific" is a co-production, but since it is a co-production, it can also be called a Chinese film, right?"
"Not to mention, the script was written by Director Wang and the filming location was also in our country. The starring actors are also Chinese.”
“Now, even the special effects are done by our domestic special effects companies.”
"It's just because, in order to be global and have a larger market, this movie joined Warner and 20th Century Fox, two of the eight major Hollywood companies."
"It was just made for global distribution. "
"Actually, "Pacific Rim." It’s our domestic film at heart!”
“It’s just for the global market that it’s a co-production!”
3L: “Thank you! I haven’t seen this movie yet.” You are all saying that the special effects are very good, buy a ticket tonight and take a look!”
4L: "I thought it was produced by a Hollywood special effects company, but it turns out that our domestic special effects company is also involved? And the proportion is still high! To be honest, this really refreshed my understanding. I didn't plan to watch this movie at first. I want to go to the movie now!”
At the same time, major entertainment media sections also reported on the matter.
Sina Entertainment: "Incredible! "Pacific Rim" was actually post-produced by a special effects company in Beijing!"
This is the charm of journalism, not to mention that BASE in Beijing is actually It was founded by a foreign founder, and it is not said that BASE was guided by Industrial Light and Magic to complete the project. It is also unclear what proportion BASE accounted for in the post-production project of "Pacific Rim".
Let me just say that the post-production of "Pacific Rim" was completed by a domestic team, and they wrote a lot about it.
To give people the impression, "Pacific Rim" is actually a film that was post-produced by a domestic special effects company.
For a time, many people felt proud!
It is even said that because of these prides, even if they know that nine out of ten of them are mainly produced by Hollywood special effects companies, they still choose to ignore them.
From the bottom of my heart, I just want to believe that the cool special effects scenes in the movie "Pacific Rim" were completed by a domestic special effects team!
And this naturally evolved into another situation.
Should this kind of special effects blockbuster produced by a domestic special effects company be as good as Hollywood movies? Should we support it?
Should I buy a ticket and go to the cinema?
One word.
That’s right!
As major media outlets have successively reported that domestic special effects companies were involved in the production of "Pacific Rim", the reports were precise and even the details were disclosed.
For a time, audiences across the country were enthusiastic about watching movies again!
To follow Zhang Weiping's words, if you don't even support "Pacific Rim" produced by a domestic special effects company, it is persecution of domestic films!
(End of this chapter)