In mid-March, the filming of "Edge of Tomorrow" continued.
They are all scattered short shots, and there are almost no shots longer than 5 seconds.
Often when Tang An shouts to start, the action director pulls the wire rope, and the actors are suddenly swept away and blown away.
Sometimes one, sometimes two or three, sometimes seven or eight people were swept away by the mimic one after another.
The main thing about the fragmented lens is that it can't be messy, so the shooting is relatively smooth.
After shooting some scenes, Tang An will have a copy of the film sent back to the capital to start post-production.
I was doing special effects while filming. Time was tight and the task was urgent.
Fortunately, "Edge of Tomorrow" was all shot in real life, and in addition to the splendor of Heaven, it was also outsourced to two other top special effects companies in the country, one of which was run by James Cameron.
Movies like "Transformers" are really time-consuming. The most time-consuming scene requires 288 hours, nearly 12 days, to render one frame.
There are generally 24 frames in one second, which means that it takes up to 298 days to complete one second of scenes. One computer takes 298 days to complete one second of scenes, and 300 computers can complete one second of scenes in one day.
Moreover, "Transformers" requires more than 200,000 hours of rendering time every day, which is equivalent to 22.8 years of rendering time within 24 hours.
This is a rendering farm composed of thousands of rented workstations with 64 cores and 64g of memory.
"Edge of Tomorrow" is completely unnecessary. This film only requires aliens to do CG, and the total screen time is less than ten minutes.
The filming of the movie is proceeding in an orderly manner. Most of the short scenes on the beach battlefield have been shot, especially the action scenes involving aliens, and post-production can begin.
What we filmed today was the rivalry scene between Liu Ye and Tang Yan, their second encounter.
After arranging the ground and creating some scorched earth, the airplane model was also ignited, but the pyrotechnicians had already controlled the burning range.
The demolition team planted explosives.
"The smoke produced by the combustion is not big enough, so the explosives will be tested three times first."
"Where's the makeup artist? Let's re-make up Tang Yan and make him look a little more embarrassed!"
"Lao Zhang, come and see the effect here."
Half an hour later, the shooting began.
"All departments prepare!"
"The actors are in place!"
"Scene 27, one shot at a time!"
"start!"
At the war-torn scene, the transport plane Tang Yan was riding was also hit and crashed, with one side of the fuselage on fire.
Having just defeated a mimic, Tang Yan pulled out the weapon that looked like a giant ship-cutting knife that had been knocked away next to him. He held it tightly with one hand and looked ahead warily.
The camera moved slowly from bottom to top, giving her a close-up of nearly two seconds.
There was some blood on his face, his face was covered with dust, and his hair was a little messy, but his face was more serious and his eyes were still cold.
The expressions don't change much throughout the film. Tang Yan has already mastered the scene very well after filming for more than a month.
"Okay, pass!"
Then scene twenty-seven, second shot.
Liu Ye lay on the ground and looked at Tang Yan not far away, remembering that Tang Yan was sneak attacked at this time on the battlefield.
"Get out of the way!"
Liu Ye yelled, and with the help of Wia, he rushed forward and threw Tang Yan at him.
"Click!"
"Come again!"
I didn't get the timing right the first time, so I passed it the fourth time.
Then the two of them touched up their makeup, and the makeup artist put some blood and scratches on their faces.
A shot takes a few seconds, and the time to stop and prepare is only ten to twenty minutes.
The third shot begins.
"I've been shot! I've been shot!"
Liu Ye lay on Tang Yan and kept repeating this sentence, his tone was a little weak.
Tang Yan, who was under him, frowned and struggled, then with a sudden force, he threw Liu Ye out.
Liu Ye, who was pulled by the wire rope, rolled around on the ground before being blocked by a pile of sand...
Liu Ye felt the condition of his body and asked about his injuries.
"There's a hole in your chest!"
Tang Yan replied like this, and began to fumble around Liu Ye's body. Without hesitation, he took off the battery from his body and installed it on his own exoskeleton mecha.
At this time, there were three consecutive explosions not far in front of them. Four or five soldiers were blown away. Cannonballs continued to pass by with long tails, and there were also powerful fireballs launched by aliens, which showed the fierceness of the battle.
Tang Yan stood up and glanced at Liu Ye the moment he turned around. He didn't even stay for more than half a second before quickly throwing himself into the battlefield.
"Pass!"
At 6:30 in the afternoon, the sky gradually darkened and it was no longer suitable for shooting, so Tang An asked everyone to call it a day.
In the past half month, the crew has finished work relatively early. Depending on the weather, even with lighting assistance, it will not be later than 7 o'clock. On cloudy days, work will be finished before 6 o'clock.
The first one is that the sky is getting dark, and the other one is that although these scenes are simple, they cannot be messy.
Liu Ye's expression will change slightly in different resets of the same scene.
Later, after fighting side by side again and again, and seeing Tang Yan die in front of him again and again, his feelings underwent subtle changes.
After dinner, the crew went to rest, but Tang An continued to work.
I spent an hour reading today’s materials and listened to secretary Zhou Li’s report on some of the company’s affairs during this period.
"Chairman, the project of "The Legend of Zhen Huan" has been officially approved, and Director Zheng has also confirmed the actors."
"Sun Li plays the female lead Zhen Huan.
Chen Jianbing plays the male lead Yongzheng.
Cai Shaofen plays the filial queen.
Liu Xuehua plays Empress Xiao Gongren, the mother of Yongzheng.
Li Tianzhu plays the role of the general eunuch Su Peisheng.
Jiang Xin plays the role of Concubine Hua Nian Shilan.
Wang Kai plays Prince Guo Yi.
Zhao Liying plays An Lingrong.
Wan Qian plays Shen Meizhuang.
Zhou Li announced the main actors one by one, and several artists under the group were given important supporting roles. Sun Li was still the heroine.
As for Wan Qian, she also joined Zhou Shiwei's studio half a month ago under the introduction of Yang Wenjun.
In addition to some important supporting roles, there are also many actors who became popular later.
Tang Yixin, Mao Xiaotong, Tan Songyun, Yinger
There seem to be artists from Huayi, but it's not a big deal.
"That's it, tell Mr. Zhuang that this drama will be handed over to Zheng Xiaolong and send someone to join the team to keep an eye on it."
"The total box office of "囧囧" has reached 6.68, and there were 35 million in a single week last week. The final box office is expected to be over 700 million."
Tang An hasn't paid attention to the news about "囧囧" for a long time. For him, it is a tool to make money. Since it is already confirmed to be a big hit, there is no need to worry about it anymore.
However, the 700 million box office met his expectations. After all, this was a figure obtained from 6,500 screens. Later, it was only 1.2 billion for 15,000 screens.
A 33% box office share is 231 million. Excluding the additional costs of 60 million, the net profit is 171 million.
There is also a distribution fee of 14 million. Now that I have the distribution capability, I will distribute it together with Bernard.
But after all, it was the first movie. Tang An only wanted 2% of the distribution fee, but the majority went to Bernard. The total of 8% of the distribution fee was 56 million.
This 56 million is equivalent to one-third of Bernard's net profit last year. Yu Dong has to treat himself to a drink.
Then Zhou Li reported on some recent events in the company and the entertainment industry.
"Chairman, two Hollywood blockbusters have been released recently, and they were both converted into 3D. However, the 3D effect was not good enough, and they were mostly criticized."
"and"
"And what?"
"According to Mr. Zhu's judgment, this was premeditated negative marketing. It came too quickly. On the afternoon of the first day of release, these voices appeared on a large scale, and they were also labeled as fake 3D." !!
Such rapid negative marketing must have been well prepared. Tang An thought for a while and asked, "Are there any other movies released at the same time?"
"There are three movies: "The Treasure Box", "Future Police" and "Dragon Showdown"."
These are the four major investors in the three films: Pony, China Film, Hualu Baina, and UniAsia.
However, Tang An instinctively believed that there was something wrong, and it was not the negative marketing done by these four companies.