Chapter three hundred and forty-eight new film pre-special effects preparation month
In recent years, National Day sales have been a popular time of the year.
In the past, the Lunar New Year period was the domain of great directors such as Feng Xiaogang and Zhang Yimou. During the summer period, there were also Tang An and a lot of Hollywood movies released. The National Day period has become a period where small and medium-sized budgets are concentrated.
However, occasionally there will be one or two blockbusters. In the past, Cheng Long's movies were released twice during the National Day holiday.
Especially last year, as "Painted Skin" took in a super high box office of 200 million during the National Day holiday, the National Day holiday officially entered the attention of several major companies.
It stands to reason that this year’s National Day holiday should be very busy. Not to mention top-tier big-budget movies, there should be movies with medium- and above-average budgets.
The actual situation is that, except for "The Founding of the People's Republic of China", there is not even a small-budget movie with an investment of 30 million. They are all movies with an investment of around 10 million.
There's nothing I can do, I can't afford to offend him, I can't afford to hide.
None of these low-budget movies has the potential to be a dark horse. The box office of "Bullfighting" released on the 11th on the first day was less than 2 million, and the total box office only exceeded 10 million after 17 days of release.
After all, Huang Bo also became popular with "Crazy Racing" and "Crazy Stone", but only got this little box office.
The first-day box office of "The Slim Gentleman" starring Sun Honglei and Lin Xilei was not as good as it was. It was only released during the National Day and took in 15 million in 14 days.
The only film left that has a decent box office is the animated film "The Prequel of the Monkey King", which took in 5 million in box office in two weeks.
Tang An has never seen this movie. I was bored and went to see it with Yang Mi a few nights ago.
I also watched the 3D version, and I was really blown away.
When the green thing came out, I thought it was Prime Minister Turtle, but when I saw the two horns on its head, I realized it was the Old Dragon King.
He Jiong voices Sun Wukong, Zhang Yishan voices Taibai Jinxing, and then Xie Na voices a female monkey. It’s scary to think about it.
However, a few children watched it very happily.
That event coincided with the director's event, and Tang An remembered his words.
Give me 100 million to surpass Hollywood.
Well, these are the director's exact words, and they are quite justified.
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Faced with such a group of opponents, "The Founding of the People's Republic of China" received a super high box office of 22 million on the first day, sweeping the National Day schedule without any suspense.
Having received 120 million in the first five days, it is basically destined to be a big hit.
In the second week, it was another 115 million. In the second half of the third week, which was during the long holiday, another 85 million was collected, and in the fourth week, it was 50 million.
It was released for 26 days, with a total box office of 3.7, which should be stable if it exceeds 400 million.
1,500 copies. Major theater chains across the country have given this movie almost all prime time slots in good theaters. All media and participating stars have cooperated in promoting it, plus many units have booked the movie. Obtaining this data does not count.
Outrageous.
It has also been well received by many media and is known as the benchmark of main theme movies.
Of course, the quality of the movie is still acceptable. At least it incorporates so many historical events and characters without any confusion, allowing the audience to watch it smoothly, with laughter and tears.
In the second half of the movie, on a night filled with gunfire, a soldier was seen running all the way to report. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be Wang Baoqiang. The soldier he played continued the image of "Xu Sanduo" in the film: "Reporting to the leader of the group."
, there is a landlord’s compound in front, the wall is too high, you can’t climb up, and grenades can’t explode it, please ask for artillery support!”
When the regiment leader played by Ge You heard the report, he ordered someone to use a flare to take a look, and the two of them were immediately dumbfounded.
Where is the landlord's compound here? It is clearly the city wall of Peking!
This section made many people laugh.
Cheng Long also attracted a lot of laughter when he appeared on the stage, wearing black-rimmed glasses and a small parted hair.
This movie also has a score of 6.4 on Douban, which is a high score for a domestic movie, especially a domestic movie with the main theme.
But no one knows now that Douban will close the ratings of "The Founding of the People's Republic of China" in less than a year. Not only will the ratings not be displayed, but not a single comment will be left.
The same goes for the subsequent "The Great Cause of the Founding of the Party" and "The Great Cause of the Founding of the Army". They cannot be rated or commented on.
More than 20 days before the movie was released, "The Founding of the People's Republic of China" was rated 2.8.
Later, Douban cleared these ratings, and only now has a rating of 6.4.
Some people wrote negative reviews more than 20 days before it was released, and if you think about it with your toes, you will know what is going on.
Some of them may be a matter of habit and they just randomly give bad reviews to movies with the main theme.
But some intentional people, as well as the mindless trolls that can be seen everywhere on the Internet, really make people understand that some Chinese people really don’t deserve to be Chinese.
Of course, "The Founding of an Army" is really rubbish. Regardless of whether it has bad reviews or not, it's only worth two or three points.
However, Optoelectronics also did something smart. The ticket prices for "The Founding of the People's Republic of China" have generally risen to 80-100 yuan, which is twice as expensive as ordinary movies.
It is estimated that the real box office of this film is only about 100 million.
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"The Founding of a People's Republic of China" is getting a lot of hype, but it has nothing to do with Tang An. He just focused on writing his own script.
There are a lot of special effects in this movie. I won’t be able to make it in time for the summer release next year, and I’m probably a little nervous about the Lunar New Year release.
There is a lot of preparation work in the early stage, including finding a suitable location and special effects preparations starting months before filming starts.
The script is not too complicated, it is a standard Hollywood commercial blockbuster, and the plot is never too convoluted.
Originally, the movie was adapted from a novel by Riben, but Tang An checked and found that the novel did not exist. It might have been eaten by the river crab beast under the 404 Great God.
Later on, a large number of novels were eaten by the mythical beast, and it was no longer surprising.
After all, Rebirth has appeared, so why is it strange that there are fewer novels?
Even if Trump loses the US election, the F1 driver gets into a car accident, Spain fails to win the Hercules Cup in next year's World Cup, or even the national football team qualify next year, Tang An won't find it strange.
After all, writing a novel requires logic. Only God knows what will happen in the next second in reality. Maybe someone will drive you to death while you are walking on the road with your eyes closed, or you may be struck to death by a thunderbolt on a sunny day.
Then you time travel...
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It took Tang An more than a month to complete the script, but he still chose the happy ending in the movie. He was not a young man, so he was afraid that he would be scolded to death for being so cruel.
Although choosing another ending and letting the male and female protagonists have a final showdown would make the movie more highly rated, Tang An's original intention was to make a popcorn movie that was enjoyable to watch.
After preliminarily completing the script, Tang An did not rush to review the script, nor did he find actors first. Instead, he started the preliminary preparations for the special effects.
Early that morning, Tang An came to Tiangong Yicai with some concept pictures he had drawn.
"Mr. Tang, you are finally here. We are all waiting to start work."
Chang Hongsong and Xiao Yang, who were waiting in the company, came downstairs to greet them in person, not to mention how enthusiastic they were.
For such a big order, you may not be able to receive one in a year.
"Mr. Chang, Mr. Xiao."
Tang An shook hands with them one by one and went upstairs into the company conference room.
They were all technical people. After a few pleasantries, Tang An took out the concept drawing of his painting and handed it over.
Chang Hongsong and Xiao Yang each shared half of it. When they got it, they saw that the painting looked decent, and they immediately praised, "Mr. Tang, you are not only great at filming, but your art skills are also so great!"
Tang An waved his hands and said with a smile, "I know a little bit about everything, but I can't be considered a professional."
The two of them are not good at flattering each other. Instead of the other producers on his crew, they were able to shoot for half an hour without any heavy lifting.