The shooting in Disney studios is still continuing, and the shooting is mainly divided into three parts: one is the ongoing studio interior shooting, the second is to enter downtown Los Angeles to shoot, and the third is to shoot some racing scenes in the southern part of California, bordering Mexico.

To be precise, all the filming of this film will be conducted in California because it received the California government’s movie tax refund discount and roughly received a tax refund of $8.6 million.

The most important condition for getting the subsidy is that the crew must stay in California to shoot and create job opportunities for California.

Arnold Schwarzenegger's governor was very upset, but he still introduced a series of economic stimulus policies that looked good.

Bella Anderson also investigated James Win and his development in Hollywood. Matthew took time to take a closer look after it was filming.

James Winn is three years older than him and was born in 1977. He is a Chinese born in Malaysia. As he said, he went to Australia to study film majors in his youth. Perhaps it was this kind of film practitioner who had received Eastern and Western education and culture that thought of integrating Eastern style into Western works.

Even Matthew had to admit that the world's Western culture has a greater influence. Often the East can accept Western cultural products, but it is difficult for the West to accept pure Eastern culture.

There are many directors from the East in Hollywood, but their inevitable works are all Westernized, such as Ang Lee.

Matthew heard Helen Hermann say that in order to ensure that it can be accepted by Westerners, when writing scripts, the screenwriter required to write scripts in English and then translate them into Chinese. Ang Lee once publicly stated on many occasions that the film was dressed in a martial arts cloak.

Perhaps in the eyes of people like Matthew who are used to watching pure martial arts movies, it is really not a good idea, but the box office and Oscar gains in North America undoubtedly prove that Ang Lee's films that use Western ideas as the core and integrate Eastern culture have indeed many selling points.

According to the information summarized by Bella Anderson from all aspects, James Win has expressed the idea of ​​appropriately introducing traditional American horror films into Eastern elements more than once.

However, he is different from Ang Lee in various movie genres, and he just wants to stay in the field of horror thriller films for the time being, which is also his interest.

Due to Matthew's solemn advice, the relevant information collected by Bella Anderson is very detailed.

For example, James Winn commented on his dark horse Virgo once said that this is a "psychological thriller", which is different from the outstanding bloody, disgusting and curiosity of the following works, and he himself only participated in the production of several later works.

James Winn has repeatedly emphasized that his ambition is to shoot works that really make people feel uneasy from the heart, rather than simply scaring the audience. He has mentioned and inspired him many times, and the influence of these two films can be seen from his subsequent works.

Also, James Wen mentioned that the $20 million investment can be said to be a high-cost horror film. James Wen and his partners said that they were restricted by the producers, and the script and overall style were not perfect. If you shoot a horror film later, try to avoid repeating the same mistakes and may return to a low-cost independent horror film.

Then, James Wen told the people around him that after the chainsaw, he would not plan to shoot plasma-type films, but to discuss possession and exorcism. The protagonist is not the so-called "ghost", but the "evil spirit", and a more complex theme linked to religion, history and dreams.

In terms of shooting techniques, he hated the pattern of American horror fast food.

For example, the protagonist of a teenager runs into the deep mountains and forests, and is foolish and wants to make a death sentence. He insists on reading this book in the ruins and not listening to advice to get the monsters out; or a group of young men insist on traveling to the deep mountains and forests that are rarely seen in the mountains and forests or deserts that cannot even cover mobile phone signals, and then encounters perverted murderers...

Through the information collected by Bella Anderson, Matthew has a clearer understanding of James Win. The young director seems to have a lot of ideas in the horror film field.

As we all know, horror films are the most easily made in the North American film market. Many small film companies and film studios actually mainly produce B-level horror films. Even if they can only have a short-term theater trip, they can often recover their costs through later video tapes and disc revenues and generate profits.

And a director will play a greater role in small productions.

Is James Wen Future an excellent horror film director? Will he create a miracle like a small person?

This is what Matthew really cares about.

Also, when he saw the Chinese name James Wen and Wen Ziren, he always felt a vague sense of familiarity, but he couldn't remember where he had seen or heard of it.

Judging from his experience in recent years, the people in the Hollywood circle who can make him feel this way are either super weird people who have turned into sisters by the Wachowski brothers or are once famous figures.

According to the information collected by Bella Anderson, James Winn has no strange hobbies except for wanting to scare people with movies.

Then the possibility that he is super weird should be very small.

Afterwards, Matthew specifically checked the box office status of several films directly related to James Win, with a North American box office of $56 million, more than $87 million, more than $80 million, and more than $63 million, and is being filmed...

Although no North American box office can exceed $100 million, for low-cost plasma films, such box office results are almost at the ceiling.

After all, the number of viewers who like this super heavy taste is limited. This is an objective situation and will not change because of James Win.

The investment of $20 million is a bit average, with the box office in North America only $16.8 million. Fortunately, the revenue of video tapes and discs is pretty good.

The film is said to have been equipped with a producer for James Wind, which strictly restricted his directorial power.

After reading these, Matthew gradually formed a clear concept. If he had the opportunity to cooperate with James Wen in the future, he must control the cost and make a low-cost horror movie, and then give James Wen a suitable director power...

He is not very clear about how much James Win can do.

However, directors like this who started from a small cost have also supported it. As long as the subsequent films explode again, they will definitely receive the attention and favor of many production companies.

You must start this kind of thing early.

Besides, a small investment of several million dollars is nothing to Matthew, and it is easy to afford even if it loses all. But what about James Winn's profits like a small one? It's easy to double the profits.

These are just ideas, and we have to wait until James Win finishes his documentary. To a certain extent, Matthew is also preparing to bet on James Win's future within the scope of his ability.

The film industry has always been an industry with relatively high risks and profits. The profit margins of traditional manufacturing are now 10% high. If the investment in a movie is successful, the profits often exceed 10%.

Matthew thought of what James Win said to him again. This very thoughtful horror film director might be able to create a horror universe.

In the following days, he looked for time and walked around the set with James Wen, and saw how the plasma film was shot.

It is obvious that James Win seems to be interested in making friends with him.

Matthew is not difficult to understand this kind of thing. James Winn and Justin Lin have a good relationship. You should know the situation of his investment in movies. Just like he was the first to be with David Ellison, as a director, it is actually very important to have a sponsor support.

After all, Hollywood is a business circle after all, and money often means a lot of things.

Matthew is also fantasizing that he can make a small-cost horror film, and the box office output can reach more than ten times the production cost...

This is not easy. Everything exists only in the imagination. How to develop in the future requires him to adjust it in time.

In early April, after a long screening, it officially bid farewell to North American theaters, leaving behind a North American box office data of US$363.2 million. The overseas box office also exceeded the 450 million US dollars in one fell swoop, and the global box office combined reached more than US$815 million.

Although the film is still released in some overseas countries and regions, it is basically a small market with limited population size. Warner Bros. expects the global box office to land around $820 million.

No matter what the measurement is, it is an extremely successful work in business, and the nature of the one-man show also proves to the world the strong box office appeal that Matthew has.

Warner Bros. has already started contact with Helen Hermann to negotiate the matter about the hero of Christopher Nolan's new film. Although he has not obtained a more detailed script, Matthew still asked Helen to talk to Warner Bros. He has basically confirmed that this project was what he had seen before.

There is no news about Paramount Pictures and Stephen Somos, and the new script has not been completed yet. According to Helen Hermann, Hasbro has some concerns about overturning the script and starting again, and put forward some different views in the writing of the new script.

It is hard to say how this project will develop in the future.
Chapter completed!