Chapter 598: Shocking magic, he’s not happy with it
The sequel of Now You See Me still continues the thrilling and dazzling magic show and thieves style of the previous movie.
In addition to the main cast of the previous film, there is another classmate named Milk Tea Zhou.
When making the sequel, Zhou Yutang had already made it clear that he would not appear in the third part.
So according to the script setting, his sense of existence will be weakened accordingly.
Shen disappears in the early stage, Kerry appears in the middle and late stages, and fakes his death in the ending, leaving the audience with suspense.
In this way, part of Zhou Yutang's role will be transferred to Milk Tea Classmate Zhou, and more importantly, the characters of the other protagonists in the protagonist group will be highlighted.
Customized spin-off dramas about the members of the protagonist group are also being planned.
Compared with the story of the previous film, this sequel movie has also expanded the world view to a certain extent, and the magic team behind the scenes has also been strengthened.
In addition to the original David Kwong team, David Copperfield was also specially invited to serve as a magic consultant.
This is the most famous magician of our time, and he has also provided a lot of inspiration and creativity for Guo Fan and other main creators.
"Hi, Zhou, nice to meet you. Haojiang is a very beautiful Chinese city."
David met this young tycoon who was very popular in Hollywood, and his attitude was very eager.
"David, thank you for your advice to the crew. I think the audience will be stunned by the great magic."
"Haha, you said that, I am also looking forward to it. ”
Of course, the main reason why David Copperfield was so warm and polite was that Zhou Yutang gave him enough money.
If you have money, you can make the foreign devils go around.
During the equipment maintenance period, Zhou Yutang and Guo Fan went through the early shooting scenes.
The leaders of the special effects team were gathered together and held a meeting to discuss the highlight of Part 2, the raindrop hover magic.
This magic trick of hovering raindrops was an idea that Zhou Yutang had when filming the first film.
At that time, considering the content and time constraints, I put it into the second part.
“Awesome.”
Deng Chao said he wanted to learn shooting techniques, so he sneaked in for the meeting.
He is now passionate about the sideline business of directing, and is also very interested in Jiangdong Entertainment’s latest commercial film production industrialization process.
The storyboards have already been animated before the filming of the movie starts. It’s not like we wait until the movie is finished to do the special effects.
The top special effects artists accompanying the team have already prepared specific simulation animation effects.
After seeing the specific effects rendered by the special effects team, Deng Chao cheered. Afterward, he pulled Zhou Yutang and asked secretly: "Yu Tang, what is the principle of this?"
"Visual retention."
Zhou Yutang was speechless: "Brother Chao, didn't I just say it in the meeting?"
"I said I said it, but I didn't fully understand it."
Deng Chao scratched his head, his face filled with an unclear expression.
In fact, the principle is very simple. It is to use light of a certain frequency to shine on the water droplets. If the falling frequency of each water droplet is the same, it will look like it is relatively stationary.
Several necessary conditions must be met.
A water pipe nozzle tied high in the sky to make rain, an empty square in the dark, with plenty of light sources.
Coupled with post-production special effects editing, what is presented to the audience is a visual feast.
Zhou Yutang briefly told him the principle of this magic: "Brother Chao, let me say this, do you understand?"
"Hold the grass, cow beep!"
Deng Chao held it in for a long time, He gave a very real thumbs up and uttered a few words.
The equipment has been repaired and the filming rhythm has resumed. Today Huo Wenxi came from Xiangjiang to visit the crew and brought Haojiang local snacks to the crew.
“Wow, this Portuguese egg tart is delicious.”
Liu Shishi's eyes are shining on the opposite side of the video.
"Then let me taste it for you first."
Zhou Yutang came across the screen to perform a live eating show.
The egg tart base is made of crispy meringue layer, which is extremely crispy and the crumbs will fall off with a slight touch.
The upper layer is a soft egg yolk layer, and the egg tart filling is more than two centimeters thick.
The ratio of eggs and cream is used to achieve an excellent ratio. The filling is full of custard flavor and has a delicate and rich texture that truly melts in your mouth.
Liu Shishi could smell the rich aroma of milky eggs through the screen of his mobile phone, and swallowed in dismay.
She has been busy recently shooting advertisements, promoting brands, and has a bunch of magazine covers to shoot. She has to stay in shape and pay special attention to what she eats.
Seeing Zhou Yutang's expression of enjoyment that showed no trace of performance was so disgusting that I wanted to rush over and bite him.
After teasing Sister Yi for a while, Taozi called someone to take pictures. Zhou Yutang returned to the chair behind the monitor and quietly watched the young master of Xiangjiang show off.
Xie Tingfeng became famous as early as a millennium ago.
At that time, everyone unanimously believed that this was the new generation king of Hong Kong.
Unfortunately, to this day, his box office performance is obviously not convincing enough, and it is not even as deeply rooted in the hearts of the people as his emotional entanglement with Sister Baizhi and the princess.
"Clear the scene, be quiet, and get ready for the test shoot!"
When all departments are ready, the actors walk into position, the scene notes are snapped, and then the shooting begins.
This scene is a confrontation between the villain Xie Tingfeng and Deng Chao. Without the help of his family, Brother Chao is no match for the villain's No. 2 boss when fighting alone, and he is played around in circles.
Then the protagonist team took action and through a magic show, they happily eliminated Xie Tingfeng, thereby introducing the big boss behind the scenes of the film, Rocky.
This is the first time for Zhou Yutang to see Xie Tingfeng acting live.
Talent is not top-notch.
But the overall lens language is sensitive and the sensibility is not bad.
Guo Fan just conveyed his request and he knew what effect to show.
The angle, positioning, and emotion are all well grasped.
There is just a small problem.
When acting, he will deliberately look for the camera, or do some subconscious tricks that even he himself may not be aware of to act cool.
Many actors who come from idol schools have this problem.
The same goes for Da Mimi. When she played Xiao Guo Xiang, she was very smart, but as time went on, she knew more and more how to express her beauty in front of the camera.
Of course, Xie Tingfeng himself is very suitable for this role of a slightly neurotic villain rich second generation, and it makes sense to act handsome and cool.
The early and middle stages of the movie are the stage where Xie Tingfeng performs, putting enough pressure on the protagonist group, setting up a plan step by step, and guiding the protagonist group to steal a chip that can connect to any computer in the world.
——Don’t ask why there is such a setting.
Magic with a touch of surrealism can exist. In this world, everything is possible.
Entering the information age, a certain boss with a background in Angsa wanted to control the world's public opinion through the latest technology chips.
Xie Tingfeng is the puppet hidden behind the scenes and pushed to the stage by Angsa's big boss Loki.
This character who is suspected of being a traitor to the Q organization will reveal some information about the Q organization after being killed by the protagonist with magic counterattack.
For example, the foreshadowing laid in the entire movie universe, the detective rankings.
"What detective rankings?"
The members of the crew are all old acquaintances. In addition to sleeping with Nazha, Zhou Yutang often gathers with Hu Ge and Deng Chao to chat after filming.
When talking about the background of the movie and the setting of Q Organization, Hu Ge was a little confused. When he came to his senses, he said with surprise in his tone:
"Boss Zhou, are you opening another one? New pit? "
"It’s not a new pit. This is a series of movies that I had in mind when I was making "Thieves". If the box office of "The Thieves" is within expectations, the project will definitely move forward. ."
"Detective ranking, is it a suspense detective movie?" Deng Chao's mind was spinning quickly.
"It's almost a suspenseful detective-themed movie, with some comedy elements added to it. The specific story setting will probably need to be modified in response to the audience's response to "The Thieves"..."
In Friends In front of him, Zhou Yutang had nothing to hide. "Detective Chinatown" was already in the company's project plan.
“Awesome.”
Lao Hu, who is quite cultural, was stunned for a while, and expressed his mood at the moment in a simple and unpretentious way.
“Then the detective ranking list is the content of “Detective Chinatown”. This is to create a movie universe similar to Marvel!”
Deng Chao realized something, became a little excited, and his eyes lit up.
“You can put it that way.”
Zhou Yutang laughed dumbly when he saw his reaction of eagerness for knowledge.
Brother Chao, who has just experienced the benefits of becoming a director, is now full of ideas about how to operate commercial films.
In the past few days since he joined the group, Deng Chao has been pulling him to talk about this.
"A Tang, you are really amazing."
The beautiful royal sister Huo Wenxi who came to visit the class listened quietly for a while and couldn't help but sigh.
Starting from "A League of Thieves" to "Now You See Me", the first two movies in this series have grossed more than 2.5 billion at the box office, sweeping across Asia.
Even South Korea followed suit and made a spin-off movie, which did well at the box office.
Right now "Now You See Me 2" is being filmed, and the next stage of film plans are in place.
While Huo Wenxi was frightened, he admired Zhou Yutang's layout even more, and he was also indescribably envious.
Yinghuang Group’s blockbuster plan is not going well.
Several movies were voted in, and some were rejected.
Had it not been for Zhou Yutang's "Slaying the Wolf 2" to save some face, Huo Wenxi, as the flagship figure of Yinghuang Films in the Mainland, would hardly be able to hold his head up when he returned to the group headquarters to report on his work.
This time Huo Wenxi heard that Zhou Yutang was filming in Haojiang, and immediately put down what he was doing and went to the crew.
Nominally, he came to visit Xie Tingfeng, but when he came, he didn't even say a few words to the young master of Xiangjiang, and kept leaning towards Zhou Yutang.
How could Zhou Yutang not know her true purpose? She just wanted to buy a ticket for Yinghuang to go to the big ship in Jiangdong.
We usually have a good relationship. Zhou Yutang gave this sister a reassurance: "In the next three years, it is expected that there will be at least two co-productions. I hope that Sister Mani will help me a lot."
"A Tang, as long as it is your project and funding is not a problem, Yinghuang will definitely follow it to the end."
Huo Wenxi's face instantly lit up with joy, and he told Zhou Yutang about the Lunar New Year event.
This year Jiang Wen's "One Step Away" can be regarded as the big boss in the Lunar New Year movie.
This film is controlled by Beijing Jiang Wen’s own Happy Film Culture Company, with other companies including Columbia Pictures, Yinghuang, China Film Group, Wanda, Happy Blue Ocean, Shanghai Film Group, iQiyi, Several investors such as Dongyang have raised a capital of up to 300 million.
Jiang Wendu made it known that he would kill the Lunar New Year stalls.
Producer Marco also made it clear that this movie is going to test the depth of the Chinese market. The momentum was so great that other film and television companies in the industry were alarmed, and some movies that had been released at the same time began to be withdrawn.
Huo Wenxi revealed some inside information: "Wanda is now talking to Marco about a guaranteed buyout of the box office for 1 billion issuance."
"Big dog."
Zhou Yutang muttered.
Wanda is the only one in China that can spend RMB 1 billion on a movie at one time.
But this is good news for Jiang Wen.
I don’t know if the news leaked somewhere, but LeTV Pictures seems to have gotten the news.
"Rogue Detective" produced by LeTV Pictures suddenly held a press conference and announced that "Rogue Detective" will be moved to January 16th, avoiding a head-on collision with "One Step Away".
Zhang Zhao is also a human spirit. Although he kept saying that in order to avoid internal friction, he wanted to do some screenings to spread word of mouth, but he was really frightened by Wanda's operation.
With a guaranteed box office of RMB 1 billion, there was no such method in the industry before.
As the leader of domestic theater chains, since Wanda has invested heavily in this gamble, it shows that it is very optimistic about the box office performance of "One Step Away", which will inevitably squeeze the release of other movies in the same period.
"Rogue Detective" If you don't want to be a bird that hits the muzzle, then you can only run away with your tail between your legs.
The young director of Xiangjiang seems to be in a good mood recently. After finishing work, he even booked a theater and invited the entire crew to watch him and Tang Wei's "One Life to Live".
This film was originally Da Meiyuan's resource. Later, when she took her parents to travel abroad, she willfully promoted the film, and it fell into the hands of the literary goddess Tang Wei.
After only 5 days of release, the box office exceeded 100 million. It has become the highest-grossing film of the Hong Kong Young Master as the only leading actor.
The beauty of the goddess of literary films and Boss Xie is so pleasing to the eye just by looking there.
"Brother, I think that turning around and hugging is really close to life."
Nazha, who has a bit of love brain, was very happy: "They say that true love will become a habit."
After watching the movie, she walked out of the cinema and got into the car. She was still holding Zhou Yutang's arm and chattering about the plot of the movie.
She is only twenty-two years old this year.
What do ordinary girls of this age do?
Perhaps he had just finished his campus life and entered the society, and was brutally beaten.
Nazha's experience is different from that of ordinary girls who have just graduated from university. She met Zhou Yutang early and was obsessed with Zhou Shufang since she entered the company. However, she has never encountered any trouble.
Big and small entertainment companies in the circle have already mentioned it, and everyone knows that this is Zhou Yutang's person.
She herself is not very ambitious, and all she wants to do is stick with her good brother.
If Zhou Yutang hadn't paid attention and asked Zhou Shufang to control Nazha's social media, she would have taken a lot of restricted intimate photos with Zhou Yutang
The movie "One Life to Live" has good box office and reputation, but within seven days, the box office exceeded 150 million.
In the somewhat deserted September, this can already be regarded as an outstanding performance.
In addition, Enlight's "Four Famous Catchers Finale" exceeded 100 million in the first three days, and Chen Jiashang handed in the last passable answer sheet to Enlight.
Chen Jia Shang's directorial contract with Guangguang has expired and he has decided not to renew the contract.
As for "Temporary Cohabitation" starring Yang Ying and Zha Zhahui, the total box office also reached 65 million.
Next is the French imported film "Bugs", and the imported Hollywood blockbusters "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Age of Mutants" and "The Expendables 3" are released together to avoid strangulation with each other.
Needless to say, this is also Pei Kang's handiwork.
The influence of the head of China Film Group lies in this. Even Marvel's blockbuster "Guardians of the Galaxy" was delayed until after the National Day holiday.
This leaves enough box office space for the project "Heart Blossoms on the Road" in which Zhou Yutang participated.
The filming of "The Thieves" crew is still going on, and they will borrow Zhou Yutang's private jet next.
There is a scene where the protagonist group completes the counterattack against the boss Loki on a plane.
During the filming, Zhou Yutang received a call from fellow student Milk Tea Zhou.
The filming of Jay Chou's scenes was basically completed in the previous month, with only a few scenes left to be reshot.
At this time, I was not on the set, and went to Singapore to prepare for my latest solo concert.
Zhou Yutang allowed him to enjoy privileges, which even Deng Chao, who had shortened the roadshow publicity period, was envious of.
After all, a celebrity like Milk Tea Zhou agreed to come and play a supporting role and get a friendly salary
He even agreed to produce a Chinese-themed global theme song for the movie, including mv, purely for love
“The production of "Zhou Chu Eliminates Three Evils" directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Zhou Yutang has been completed. Zhang Yimou's team recently arrived in Beijing in a low-key manner, looking relaxed."
" Directed by Wu Yusen and starring Zhang Ziyi, Takeshi Kyojo, Huang Xiaoming, Song Hye Kyo and others, "Taipei (Part 1)" is scheduled to be released on December 2. Oriental's "Titanic" officially sets sail and will be paired with "Taking the Tiger" "Mountain" is a head-to-head passionate confrontation! "
"The world's first screening of "Heart Blossom Road" was held at the Princess of Wales Theater in downtown Toronto, and the response was enthusiastic and received rave reviews. "
Although the film industry is deserted in September, several major directors are making moves.
First, Wanda shocked the entertainment industry by buying out Jiang Wen’s new film with a guaranteed one-billion-dollar guarantee, while LeTV Pictures fled without a fight.
Then there is the news that Ning Hao's new film "The Flowers of the Heart" was a hit in Toronto.
According to reporters’ statistics, as a screening film at this year’s Toronto Film Festival, “Beautiful Heart” was unexpectedly popular.
At the movie viewing scene, moderate or above laughter erupted as many as 98 times, including nearly 20 times of laughter + applause.
When the film screening ended, it was already past 11 p.m., but only a handful of audience members left the venue.
I really didn’t buy the draft.
Because a large part of the audience present are local Chinese, there is no obstacle to watching the movie.
And Toronto International Film Festival artistic director Cameron Bailey is also pushing this road comedy.
Some Waiguo friends only watch the movie with subtitles. Although they don’t understand the meaning of words such as “brainless” in the movie, they also praise this movie with Chinese-style absurd realism. .
Ning Hao also held a director forum there, Huang Bo, Ma Su and other leading actors were still promoting the film, and Zhao Liying ended her trip to Toronto first.
The round-faced cute girl Xiao Zhao is also a busy person now.
After digesting the traffic brought by "The Best of Us", she has now officially secured her position in the front row of A-list actresses.
Furthermore, the cast of "A Thousand Bones", the final collaboration with Zhu Yilong, has finally been finalized. After the preparation work is completed, the filming is expected to start in late September, and Xiao Zhao will have to rush back to China to take the final makeup photos.
“Are you sure?”
"Well, I have discussed it with Zeng Jia and the others. "Diaosi Men" is very popular now. You also said that the box office of this movie can be expected."
As soon as Zhou Yutang finished the meeting in the evening, he received a call from Yang Honey phone.
It can be heard that Damimi’s tone is somewhat excited.
This is Mixing Company’s first film and television investment.
She used her salary plus some cash to get 15% of the investment share of "Pancake Man", and also bet on the clause of "rewards starting from 300 million box office".
It's only been a few days, and the game has already been set up.
Dong Xiaopeng is indeed very capable.
In addition to Sohu’s investment of 20 million to obtain a 50% share, Wanda and Xinli are still in the game, and they soon announced to the public:
"Started by the online drama " Created by the original cast of "Dose Man", Dong Xiaopeng directs and stars, Yang Mi, Liu Yan, Jean-Claude Van Damme join the cast across the sea, dozens of first-line superstars guest star in the luxurious cast of the Chinese superhero movie "Pancake Man", which will be in It will be launched this month!”
The cost is not high, but the publicity battle is really big.
With the strong audience base accumulated by "Diaosi Men", it even attracts more attention than the new films of some big directors.
Dong Xiaopeng has gone to Hong Kong alone and is preparing to invite Zhou Xingxing to join "Pancake Man".
The filming of this movie has not yet started, and the attention is instantly aroused.
“He really came to see me.”
Occasionally Zhou Xingxing would call Zhou Yutang to discuss the preparation progress of the "Mermaid" project. Speaking of this, he still felt a little regretful:
"Dapeng is a very thoughtful person, but unfortunately the investor has already been decided."
Zhou Yutang laughed when he heard this.
As expected of Zhou Xingxing, he is still so real.
Of course he doesn’t want to make a bad cameo appearance in this kind of online drama platter movie, but that doesn’t stop him from wanting to make a fortune from it.
To him, movies are both art and business.
Now that the opposite investor is in place, it can't be said that he is disappointed.
After all, "Pancake Man" only has a small potential.
The "Mermaid" in his hands is the king, and Zhou Xingxing devoted most of his energy to this project.
"Mr. Zhou, the audition and casting selection has almost been finalized. Have you received the list?"
"Yes."
Zhou Yutang took a look at the latest audition list for "Mermaid".
Except for Girls' Generation's Yoon-a Lin playing the mermaid, Deng Chao is the male lead, and the second female lead is former star girl Zhang Yuqi.
In addition, Luo Zhixiang, who is very picky about men's gangs, starred in the supporting role of the octopus monster.
It also includes small roles for several artists from Zhou Xingxing's own Xinghui company.
Zhou Xingxing’s project must be his own decision.
Zhou Yutang only recommended Lin Yuner and did not interfere with the rest.
But for now, apart from the fact that it is a pity that Mr. Xing himself does not act, there is basically no problem.
After a pause, Zhou Xingxing continued: "There is one more thing I want to communicate with you. Someone in Beijing has found me and wants to recommend Wu Yifan to join the group. I want to hear your thoughts."< br>
“There is no suitable role for him in the script, right?”
Zhou Yutang frowned: “Director Zhou, the movie has received enough attention now, so there is no need to over-hype it.”
Wu Yifan, who is currently returning to China under the aura of the Tea Egg Boy Group, can be said to be the top in the industry.
Zhou Xingxing probably took a fancy to Wu Yifan's traffic and was a little tempted.
But the project "Mermaid" has bi-weekly collaborations, as well as Girls' Generation's top actress in Asia, Lin Yoona, so there is no shortage of traffic.
The script has been decided. If we bring him into the group now, should we add another electric eel character?
That makes no sense.
"What you said makes sense."
Zhou Xingxing said thoughtfully: "Then forget it."
Then, after talking about Zhou Yutang's schedule, Zhou Xingxing hung up the phone. The female assistant next to me handed over a cup of coffee with admiring eyes:
"Director Zhou, you really guessed it. He really refused."
"Haha, that one The talented woman has a bit of a crush on him, and there has been a scandal recently, so it’s normal for him to be unhappy with that boy.”
Zhou Xingxing sank comfortably into the large boss chair, took the coffee and took a sip, with a smile on his face.
What a popular niche guy.
In his eyes, he is not even a hair compared to Zhou Yutang.
The movie characters have all been decided, and deliberately mentioning this at this time is just a favor to Zhou Yutang.
After all, Hua Yi has been offended. If he wants to do projects in domestic entertainment in the future, it is necessary to have a good relationship with Zhou Yutang.
(End of this chapter)