"Saw" has been under the spotlight for a long time, but its influence is still astonishing.
Hundreds of thousands of investments.
More than $100 million in box office.
The shooting does not need to be difficult, it only requires blood-soaked survival scenes.
Low risk, high reward, and there are many hungry movie fans eagerly waiting for the arrival of "Saw 2"...
Everything is enough to drive many old American filmmakers crazy.
February this year.
Similar escape room movies from the United States and the United States are almost in a blowout shooting state.
Almost all of these films that have been shot are scheduled to be released in April.
Zhou Yang opened the pre-sale tickets for movies that will be released in the United States in April or will be released soon.
After reading it, he was stunned.
No one would have thought that since the popularity of "Interstellar" has faded away, it is not other blockbusters that have occupied the April movie schedule in the United States, but "Saw Massacre", "Saw Night", "Saw: Tomb", "
Movies with similar names like "My Chainsaw".
Moreover, the box office sales of these movies were actually quite good. After watching them over and over again, Zhou Yang couldn't find any that hit the market.
After seeing the introductions to these scripts, Zhou Yang felt a sense of familiarity.
Almost every movie has a hapless black friend, an evil white behind-the-scenes player, and a series of almost damning curse words.
All movies seem to follow a template, but you can't sue them for plagiarism or infringement.
"Mr. Zhou, your "Saw" set off a chain saw craze in the United States. The game company saw the potential of "Saw" and hoped to purchase the game adaptation rights and signature rights of the movie..."
On the phone, Zheng Jun's voice was excited and crazy.
It's like making a fortune.
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This year's Cannes International Film Festival revealed a serious and suffocating atmosphere both inside and outside.
Although many of the participating filmmakers tried their best to hide this sense of depression with smiles, movie fans could feel that this year's Cannes was unusual.
Chairman Steve Ferres was once a Norwegian director. In the 1980s, he made many bold art films in the international film circle. He was boycotted, threatened, and banned from directing several times, but he did not
As a result, he fell into ruin and failed to recover. Instead, his status in the film industry became higher and higher, and he was even regarded as a god-like existence by many filmmakers.
In a way, art does not need to be mediocre.
Not only is it not necessary, but it also needs to be unique and fanatical, preferably someone who can dedicate himself to art.
The same is true for the so-called film art.
Steve Ferris appeared at the premieres of the 28 Cannes shortlisted films this year. Every time he appeared, he attracted a lot of attention, acting like the king of Cannes.
This year's Cannes Film Festival has actually been quite controversial.
Although anti-war films have always been a regular at film festival award ceremonies.
"The End of Bella," an anti-war film that won the Berlin Golden Bear last year, has received rave reviews.
But the filming of this year's "Celsius 911" was too bold and explicit.
"The Last Days of Bella" only focused on filming civilians in Iraq, and its depiction of the war was very limited and obscure. However, "Celsius 911" almost pulled down all the underwear of the old American and presented her naked in front of everyone.
, with the premiere of "Celsius 9/11" in Cannes, the old American incumbent was criticized and cursed by many media, and public opinion fell to the lowest point during his tenure, and there were even widespread protests and denunciations.
The depressing and suffocating atmosphere at this year's Cannes basically came from this movie.
A few days after the premiere of this movie, filmmakers from various countries even thought that Michael Morgan might not survive the award ceremony. They even predicted that he would be shot when he walked on stage to accept the award, or even before receiving it.
Of course, director Michael Morgan doesn't care about these things at all.
Artists are very fanatical, especially for an artist like him who has paranoia in his bones. If he can really die on stage, then he will definitely go down in history.
February 24th.
Michael Morgan finally met Zhou Yang, whom he had longed for.
He had heard the legendary story about Zhou Yang countless times from Christian's mouth.
Zhou Yang in the story is full of wisdom, alertness, paranoia and fanaticism...
Artists are all lonely, like a lone wolf who always lives in a corner that no one knows, but they also need recognition and companionship.
He felt that Zhou Yang should be such a person.
A fighter, a hero!
Michael Morgan was actually pleasantly surprised when he saw Zhou Yang for the first time.
The Oriental director seemed to be immersed in his own world. He was taciturn and handsome when facing me, but he revealed a cold sense of solemnity. He also disliked excessive interviews and attention from reporters as much as he did. The windbreaker wrapped him around him.
The outside is tight, as if there are two worlds apart, and it instinctively resists the reporters outside.
He rarely talks about movies.
When facing each other, he just nods in greeting. When eating together, he eats the dishes on the plate as clean and golden as if they have been washed.
After finishing the meal, he politely declined invitations from himself, Christian, and even chairman Steve Ferres and hid in his room. He never even went to the screening room of "Struggle" and refused to accept any invitations from reporters in any name.
Interview.
"He doesn't like crowded places. Most of the time, he likes to be alone. Of course, his personality changes a lot. Sometimes he is crazy about blood, and sometimes he feels disgusted. He hates interviews, at least when I know him.
At that time, he never took the initiative to conduct interviews. His character is actually very paranoid. Of course, his character is also very weird. He seems to have been suppressing the violent tendency..." Christian took a sip of tea and looked at
The night outside Cannes is lingering.
"I think he is more like a sensitive, lonely night walker..." Chairman Steve Ferris was not disgusted by this, and sighed in his heart: "This reminds me of myself when I was young..."
"I think he is a proud man. When I was having dinner with him, I felt a trace of arrogance in his bones. He seemed to look down on everyone..." Michael Morgan nodded, and he was convinced.
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"Boss, Mr. Christian invites you to have dinner together, will you come over?"
"Not going."
"Oh, boss, and Mr. Cameron, the photographer, would like to take a photo of you for convenience?"
"forget it."
In the room, Xu Mei nodded and then left.
Zhou Yang, on the other hand, looked out the window with complicated eyes.
He didn't look down on anyone.
He simply felt that he should keep a distance from these people, as far as possible.
When he met Christian, he felt that Christian seemed more fanatical than before, and his remarks were full of dangerous remarks, which made Zhou Yang's spine shiver.
Christian was at the dinner table, chatting about the current beauty and the public, criticizing, and even slapping the table.
He met Chairman Steve Ferres. Steve Ferres gave Zhou Yang the impression of a very sensitive and paranoid artist. Although his words were calm, Zhou Yang felt that this person was very dangerous, as if he was
A time bomb that could explode at any time, especially the way he stared at him, made Zhou Yang's heart beat wildly.
He also met Michael Morgan, the director of "Celsius 9/11". His thinking was quite dangerous. During the chat, he even imagined with Christian that he might be shot dead by fanatics on stage. If this was the case, he hoped that Christian would be well.
He took a picture of him being shot and told his son that he was a hero!
Immediately afterwards, he began to talk at length about how he would die, whether the bullet would penetrate his head or his chest, and how he should fall down in a dignified manner.
After Zhou Yang listened to Michael Morgan's words and saw the fiery look of anticipation in his eyes, his mind went blank.
He thinks this guy is simply a lunatic.
The evening of February 25th.
Zhou Yang heard a knock on the door.
Then...
Will Smith came, bringing with him a short, old African American director with a crew cut, his name was Chelsea.
Will Smith was the most normal person Zhou Yang had ever seen. Instead of chatting with Zhou Yang about how old America was, he introduced Zhou Yang to the black director Chelsea.
Zhou Yang glanced at Chelsea subconsciously, and inexplicably became wary again.
Chelsea wants to make a science fiction movie.
There was a vague concept and idea, but the idea was too vague to form a specific script. Chelsea found many screenwriters and told them his ideas, and also tried to have many scripts written, but he was never satisfied.
So Will Smith introduced Zhou Yang to him. It just so happened that this time in Cannes, Chelsea also had a work shortlisted, so he came to talk to Zhou Yang about the script.
"Mr. Zhou Yang, I like your "Saw". I heard that a game company has bought the adaptation rights of "Saw" from you?"
"Haha, thank you, I also like your "Sunset". If I remember correctly, this should be the only science fiction film shortlisted in Cannes, right?"
"Yep."
Thanks to the exaggeration of some well-intentioned people in the United States, Zhou Yang's popularity among the black community is very high.
Chelsea actually didn't have any hope for this trip. In his inherent impression, Zhou Yang had always made realistic literary and artistic films, focusing on the grassroots at the bottom. The film he wanted to make was a science fiction film.
It's best to make a commercial movie with a bit of comedy atmosphere. It's really the opposite of Zhou Yang, but it's actually quite nice to meet and chat with Zhou Yang.
After Zhou Yang chatted with Chelsea and discovered that Chelsea was a normal person without any paranoia or fanaticism, he finally smiled and his sense of vigilance slowly disappeared.
Then...
They talked about the new movie.
"Mr. Zhou Yang...are you okay?" After Chelsea finished speaking his thoughts, he found that Zhou Yang did not seem to be listening seriously. Instead, he kept looking at Will Smith. He frowned slightly.
brow.
"Mr. Chelsea, please wait a moment."
About ten minutes later...
Chelsea stared blankly as Zhou Yang handed over a script outline.
He took it subconsciously.
He saw three Chinese characters in the name of the script.