Chapter 689: Master Jing sighs with ease
Cao Baoping pays attention to working slowly and carefully when filming.
"The Chaser", which started shooting in June, was only ready to be completed in November.
I heard that the actors were tortured so much.
The final stage of the film was produced by Vision Media.
Zhou Yutang took a look.
The texture is very good.
Having lunch with Lao Cao in the company canteen.
As for the ordinary beef noodles, when the chopsticks were raised, Zhou Yutang thought of Zhang Yi.
In this drama, the five-star killer played by Zhang Yi absolutely subverts the audience's perception of him.
Especially the scene of eating noodles is a classic.
"How to arrange this year's Golden Horse Awards?"
Cao Baoping took a sip of haggis noodle soup with a satisfied expression on his face.
The men from Datong, Shanxi, are good at this.
There is a chef in the canteen of Jiangdong Company who is good at making pasta.
"I'm very busy this month. I'm going to Xiangjiang soon. Director Zhang isn't going either."
Zhou Yutang picked some spicy food in the bowl and said with a smile: "When the time comes, Teacher Cao, run away." Let’s go.”
His schedule is very tight.
There is a big move in Jingdong, and a meeting is going on.
I have to fly to Xiangjiang soon.
Zhou Yutang had previously promised Boss Yang to make a guest appearance in "Chilling 2", and Zhou Yutang would never go back on what he had promised.
It only takes a few shots and can be completed in one day. The main purpose is to prepare for "The Lonely and Brilliant God".
“There’s not much hope if I go.”
Cao Baoping chewed on the noodles and put on a clove of garlic.
The Jiangdong Department is still very loud at the Golden Horse Awards.
Lao Mouzi's "Away with Three Evils" received seven nominations for Best Director, Best Actor, Best Action Design, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Art Design, and Best Costume Design.
But he is in Tyrande at the moment and will definitely not attend.
Deng Chao also received a Best Actor nomination for "Scorching Sun", and Liu Shishi received a Best Actress nomination for "The Tuner".
When the nominations were announced, some media in the industry joked about it.
Jiangdong Entertainment has taken over half of this year’s Golden Horse Awards.
The executive committee sent an invitation to Zhou Yutang in advance.
Sylvia Chang, Chairman of the Golden Horse Executive Committee, is an acquaintance and not too familiar.
But this year, it is Chen Guofu’s turn to be the chairman of the jury, but he is an old acquaintance of Zhou Yutang.
He made two trips to Jiangdong Building and almost achieved the feat of visiting Jiangdong three times to invite Zhou Lang.
But Zhou Yutang’s schedule conflicted with the Golden Horse, so he had no choice but to give up.
When he first debuted, Zhou Yutang needed the Golden Horse Award to promote him.
That time, this time.
Now Zhou Yutang has already soared in the entertainment industry.
If he were to attend, he would actually be promoting the Golden Horse Awards.
The Thief Group is a great success, and the seminar is imperative.
Zhou Yutang received a personal call from the Children's Bureau at the beginning of last month.
With the active development of the film industry, how can it be possible without leadership to grasp the overall situation?
Only sum up experience and convey spiritual ideas.
Only in this way can we promote the creative transformation and innovative development of the entire industry...
Guo Fan was participating for the first time and was somewhat nervous.
Big bosses who often appear in official news attended the meeting.
People from the Film Bureau and Long Xuan also came.
Even Pei Kang, the head of China Film Group, is relatively far behind.
There are also big directors in the industry, CEOs of film and television companies, gold medal producers, experts from all walks of life, etc.
In a word, the standards are very high.
"It's been several hours, don't drink too much water."
Zhou Yutang, who is the chief creator, kindly reminded Guo Fan.
The meeting will probably last a few hours.
The leaders took turns to speak, the creators talked about their experiences, and then scholars and experts from all walks of life asked questions and summarized, and the media reporters took photos...
Xu Guangtou has suffered losses before.
That year, "囧囧" became a phenomenon. He attended the seminar dressed up and poured water at the beginning, preparing to express himself well in front of the leaders.
As a result, halfway through the session, my face changed and my legs tightened for fear of leaking.
When it was over, my bladder almost exploded.
Every year at the seminar, Zhou Yutang is indispensable, and he behaves quite calmly.
After the seminar, Guo Fan breathed a sigh of relief and felt a little impressed.
He remembered a popular meme on the Internet.
Even if Zhou Yutang is not in the entertainment industry and is driving screws, he can still be the leader of a factory.
He felt that Zhou Yutang, wearing a pair of black-framed plain glasses, had the elegant demeanor of a veteran cadre.
Other than being a little too young and handsome, even among those big guys, it doesn’t feel too out of place.
Those who can attend such an occasion are all celebrities in the industry.
After the meeting.
There are also people who go around to try to make friends, talk about things, and even occasionally ask for autographs.
Zhou Yutang dealt with it with ease, and was dragged to have tea by Chief Jia as soon as he came out.
With the bustling National Day release, the film market in November is a bit deserted.
Domestic movies such as "My Virgin Land" and "The Rainy Night" are mostly small fish and shrimps, not worth mentioning.
The one that can be considered a big fish is Chief Jia's "Old Friends in Mountains and Rivers".
However, after the movie was released, the box office can only be said to be unsatisfactory.
After four days of release, the box office has exceeded 20 million. It has only been released for four days. Because the film schedule is too low, it will be canceled soon.
With a quick glance, Zhou Yutang saw the disappointment in Chief Jia's expression.
If it was before "Destined", he would definitely not be so lost.
After all, he makes all realistic-themed literary films, which have a high threshold for ordinary audiences to watch.
Life is hard enough for everyone.
I just want to relax when I go to the cinema to watch a movie. Naturally, I am not willing to watch such a reality-heavy movie.
But at that time, Zhou Yutang helped mediate and open up the relationship, and "Destined" was successfully released in the Chinese Film Market. It attracted a lot of traffic with the gimmick of almost being banned.
Coupled with the online quality of the movie and the hot spot effect created by marketing, word-of-mouth and box office both took off, with a revenue of 193 million.
The producer went to the living room and knelt down, truly witnessing Governor Zhou's ability to turn decay into magic.
It also created the peak box office record of Director Jia Ke’s career.
Chief Jia, who has achieved both fame and fortune, has been held in a very high position by some movie fans.
Something changed in his mentality.
For "Old Friends in Mountains and Rivers", there will be psychological hints and expectations of "at least going further than "Destined".
Especially now that the Chinese film market is taking off, with rising stars such as Lu Yang, Wen Muye, and Guo Fan emerging.
With a box office record of several hundred million, I would be too embarrassed to show it.
One billion, 1.5 billion, 2 billion
Xiao Gangpao and other big directors are gearing up, but Lao Jia is calm on the surface, but he can't help but have thoughts.
Just waiting for the box office to come out, Chief Jia woke up on the spot.
However, Zhou Yutang comforted him a little, and he quickly adjusted himself and said another thing: "Mr. Zhou, I am going to take the lead in setting up an international film festival."
"International film festival? "Zhou Yutang was slightly stunned.
“Yes, our Chinese films should be more diversified and have more innovative film types, so that the entire film industry will get better and better.”
Chief Jia gushed with gestures He kept talking, with light in his eyes.
“This.”
After hearing what he said, Zhou Yutang sighed with emotion: "I'm afraid it's not that easy."
China originally only had three international film festivals: the Magic City Film Festival, the Changchun Film Festival, and the Beijing International Film Festival. This year, the Silk Road was newly established. Road Film Festival.
Zhou Yutang felt that he did not have the energy to handle this matter.
With his identity and status, he is only suitable to operate behind the scenes, not in front of the stage.
But he still admires Section Chief Jia’s idea.
At least it's not empty talk, it's really doing something practical for China's film industry.
With Chief Jia’s connections, maybe he can actually get it done...
Last month’s film school anniversary coincided with the 110th anniversary of Chinese cinema, which is also considered a major event in the industry. .
While Zhou Yutang was working on the post-production of the film, he also took time to attend the Nortel School Anniversary with Liu Tianxian.
But Poet Chen was not even present at that grand event.
This is not scientific.
Zhou Yutang guessed that he was in retreat, and that it was a death barrier that could not be broken or established.
Chen Hong had been invited several times before, and he was quite curious. Now that he had finished the post-production of the movie in hand, he took the time to visit the crew of "The Great Wall".
Most of the scenes of this drama were shot in Qingdao Oriental Movie Capital.
During this period, I happened to be filming exterior scenes at the Huairou Film and Television Base, which saved me a lot of trouble.
"We are blessed to have Mr. Zhou come to the set of "The Great Wall"."
Zhou Yutang sent a message in advance. As Poet Chen's royal butler of the set, Chen Hong came out to greet him in person, which was a bit too polite. call.
I don’t know which temporary worker it is, but they also put up a sign at the scene, which says, "Welcome Mr. Zhou to visit the "Great Wall" team, and invite everyone to drink milk tea~~"
Milk tea too It had been arranged a long time ago that I would come to visit someone else's crew, and it would not make sense to come here empty-handed. I shook hands with Chen Hong and took photos with two excited media before entering the crew.
"Sister Hong, I have benefited a lot from being able to come and communicate with Director Chen..."
Zhou Yutang's moderately thick lips revealed a bright smile just right.
One sentence could make Diao Chan smile.
Not entirely polite.
Objectively speaking, Poet Chen’s talent is not just about saying beautiful words.
His composition and use of colors are definitely at the top level among Chinese directors.
“Oh, let me take you to see it.”
Chen Hong led Zhou Yutang inside with a cheerful smile: “Brother Kai should be in a meeting with people from Legend and Universal, really. It's very difficult..."
As soon as the Governor appeared, the actors, extras and others in the crew immediately opened the passage for him to pass and watched with respectful eyes.
Hearing from Chen Hong that there were guests on the set, Zhou Yutang looked up and saw that it was Wang Jing from Xiangjiang.
Does this fat man want to make progress too?
“Mr. Zhou?!”
“Director Wang is here too?”
“Hey, come over and learn Director Chen’s shooting techniques.”
This fat man is as greasy as ever.
He seems to be a little fatter than the last time we met.
He was still followed by the long-legged beauty in the autumn mood, smiling and saying hello respectfully:
"Hello, Mr. Zhou."
"Well, hello. "
Zhou Yutang nodded lightly: "Let's go in and take a look."
Princess Tian has been on the set for more than half a year for this drama, and there has been no draft from her for a long time.
At this moment, he was wearing silver and bronze armor, and he looked very heroic. When he saw Zhou Yutang, his apricot eyes widened with surprise: "Brother Yutang, why are you here?"
“Let’s see you.”
Zhou Yutang smiled gently: “How do you feel?”
“I don’t know how to put it, but it’s quite fulfilling anyway.”
Da Tiantian showed a sweet smile: "I heard from Director Chen that it seems to be finished soon."
"Howling in the mud, Zhou."
Matt Damon spoke broken Chinese .
This popular Hollywood star looks a bit slovenly and like a savage.
This is also because of his character in the play, a mercenary who comes to China to look for black powder.
"You speak Chinese well."
Zhou Yutang hugged him cordially: "I heard that Cassie's "Manchester by the Sea" has been completed?"
He interacted with Matt Damon and the Affleck brothers several times at cocktail parties in Hollywood.
“Wow.”
Matt Damon exclaimed and smiled heartily: “If Cassie knew that Mr. Miracle was paying attention to him, he would be flattered.”
Zhou Yutang's business in Hollywood is not limited to cooperation with Warner New Line.
We are also evaluating suitable investment projects.
Like "Dallas Buyers Club", it is a classic case of picking up the slack.
Unfortunately, when I watched "Manchester by the Sea" later, I was told that no additional investment was required.
The investment cost of the entire film is only US$8.5 million. Matt Damon himself is the producer, and there are several producers, so there is no financial pressure at all.
Fatty Wang followed beside him and said nothing.
On the other hand, the long-legged beauty next to him looked at Zhou Yutang with bright eyes.
She felt that this popular Hollywood star had a deliberately close attitude towards Zhou Yutang.
Without much chatting, Zhou Yutang followed Chen Hong around, and people from the Hollywood team could be seen everywhere.
“This is an Oscar-winning design team. In order to perfect the image of Taotie, a total of 746 versions have been designed and produced.”
"There is also ARRI's latest camera ALEXA65, which can shoot up to 6.5K dynamic images. This is photographer Stewart Draper of the American Photographers Association."
Chen Hong proudly introduced to Zhou Yutang .
Except for Director Chen Shi, the pre-production, post-production and visual effects departments are all professional production teams from Hollywood.
It can be said that "The Great Wall" was basically produced under the Hollywood standardized industrial system.
Poet Chen finished the meeting and watched the previously shot scenes of "The Great Wall" together.
Well, the picture is beautiful, the rest is hard to describe
"After this drama, I will start "Kukai the Ghost Banquet of the Tang Dynasty". I have been working on the scenery in Xiangyangguang for five years. Only then will the play be truly controlled by me."
Zhou Yutang felt that Poet Chen's hair had turned a lot grayer, as if he had aged ten years.
It’s definitely not because Diao Chan sucked all his energy away, it’s probably because of the hard work of making this movie.
Jingcheng Kaiye is very depressed.
No matter how tough this relationship is, it can't be tougher than Capital Dad, right?
"You came out of the theater, and you also played the role of Ancient Sword?"
"Yeah, but I'm not quite up to par. You played the role of a stone demon. Maybe you don't even remember it. "
Qiu Yi did not feel embarrassed, and laughed openly.
“I have the impression that this is how I came here. With Director Wang supporting you, it will be no problem to become famous...
By the way, what kind of cosmetics do you use, how do you take care of these legs, your skin is so good..."
Ni Ni is quite good at comforting people, and soon they got together to chat.
< br>Zhou Yutang glanced at her casually.
The face is a little bit technological, but this pair of natural legs are really eye-catching, and they are not inferior to Ni Ni.
Fatty Wang has always been good at playing. .
The red flag does not fall down at home, but the colorful flags flutter outside.
He has seen people riding cars, but rarely people riding airplanes.
It was fate that we met each other this time. When we came out, I had a meal with Fatty Wang.
He heard that Zhou Yutang had a trip to Xiangjiang, so he shamelessly followed him.
However, on a flight of more than three hours, it would not be boring to have someone to chat with.
Fatty Wang graduated from the Chinese Department of Xiangjiang University and is also a screenwriter. He has been in the film and television industry for decades and his eloquence is quite good.
During this period, it was natural to talk about what the crew of "The Great Wall" saw.
The stewardess opened a bottle of red wine and Wang Jing asked with a smile:
"I feel that Director Chen's face is not very good-looking. What do you think, Mr. Zhou?"
"What do you think? ?”
"Haha."
Probably because they were having fun, Fatty Wang let himself go a little bit,
"Director Chen's shooting techniques and camera images are of course impeccable, but the plot has big problems. There are foreigners offering advice and guidance, I don’t know how he will end it.”
Zhou Yutang just raised his glass and took a sip of wine.
Smile lightly.
On the contrary, Ni Ni and Qiu Yinong beside him frequently looked sideways.
In fact, as a director, you can get a rough idea of the quality of a movie when the project is halfway through.
It stands to reason that the film's producers will wrap up production in September.
But Poet Chen is still reshooting certain parts. This is because the production teams of Legendary and Universal are not satisfied with the film.
With these two teams following up throughout the whole process, Poet Chen was also quite constrained in doing things, and foreigners would not play that trick with him.
"Director Wang, I heard that "Haojiang Fengyun 3" is on the Spring Festival schedule?"
"It just coincides with Mr. Zhou's "Mermaid"."
Fatty Wang shook his head with a look on his face Painful expression: "Wow, the biweekly combination is too scary. I hope it won't be too ugly, otherwise I won't be able to explain it to the bosses."
Zhou Yutang also found it funny: "My role is not good. "If it's more, it's just a guest appearance." I wish I could make Mr. Zhou the protagonist..."
Zhou Yutang listened to Fatty Wang chattering and remembered old things in Hong Kong.
When Zhou Xingxing was still working in Yongsheng, he worked with Fatty Wang, and the two were even good friends.
Later on the filming of "The King of Thousand Kings 2000", Fatty Wang invited Zhou Xingxing to act as Zha Zhahui.
The appointment was for six days, but it ended up taking nine days.
After the film was completed, Zhou Xingxing was edited into the male lead.
When promoting the movie, Fatty Wang also placed Zhou Xingxing, who only appeared for 15 minutes, in the C position on the poster.
No one else knows what happened during this period.
But there were rumors in the world that Zhou Xingxing felt that Fatty Wang had tricked him into carrying the sedan chair for Zha Zhahui, who was not well-known at the time.
At this point, the two of them fell out.
"Director Wang has been living in the capital recently?"
"Yeah, I'm used to living there. I only go back to Xiangjiang in a few months. This time, I'm borrowing Mr. Zhou's help to go back and see my father."
Fatty Wang lives in the capital most of the time.
In order to get closer to the mainland audience, I privately researched the best-selling movies in the mainland in the past ten years.
When I have nothing to do, I often go to Jiangdong Entertainment for a walk.
After going back and forth, he became familiar with Wen Muye, Lu Yang, Guo Fan and others.
The sun is setting in Hong Kong, and many great directors in Hong Kong have failed, but Fatty Wang is one of the few Hong Kong directors who can make money.
We have made two movies in a row, "The Storm". Although the reputation is not good, the box office figures are quite good, and it has actually made a lot of money for the producers.
Otherwise, we wouldn’t have released “Haojiang Fengyun 3”, targeting this year’s Spring Festival release.
Fatty Wang can start from a humble beginning and become the top commercial film director in Hong Kong. However, every project he handles rarely causes investors to lose money.
But he makes commercial films by himself and privately invests in many literary and artistic films.
This is what Zhou Yutang admires most about Fatty Wang.
That's why he was able to get on this plane.
(End of this chapter)