Chapter 960 Questions from film critics (4100+ chapters~)
When Wu Jianye was waiting for the members of the "Inception" crew to arrive at Tangting Culture, Li Na had already sent over the box office of "Eternal Night".
At this time, it has been more than a month since "Eternal Night" was released.
The box office has also reached 165 million, becoming the highest-grossing movie since the beginning of this year, surpassing the Hollywood blockbuster "True Lies" released last year.
In another time and space, "True Lies" had a box office of 103 million, but in this time and space, the movie "True Lies" had a box office of over 150 million!
This is all due to the emergence of Fengge Cinema Line.
The box office of Xiangjiang has officially exceeded 50 million Hong Kong dollars. However, this movie obviously has no stamina in Hong Kong. It is estimated that the final box office will be around 55 million!
However, this is already a very good result.
Subsequently, the box office in Asia has exceeded 45 million US dollars, and the box office in European and American countries has exceeded 70 million US dollars!
The total global box office converted into RMB is 1.18 billion!
It is expected that the final box office will reach about 1.5 billion yuan!
This box office caused quite a stir once it was reported. Other domestic film companies or studios actually only announce their domestic box office and rarely announce their overseas box office.
However, Tang Ting Culture reported it all, and privately many people said that this was Wu Jianye's confidence.
However, some thoughtful people still see the problems in this. For example, the box office of the movie "Eternal Night" in Europe and the United States cannot be compared with Wu Jianye's previous movie "The World of Chu Xing".
The movie "The World of Chu Xing" was released in North America, and its box office in the first week exceeded US$55 million. In the end, the box office in North America reached more than US$150 million.
And now the movie "Eternal Night" has been released in Europe and the United States for nearly a month, and the total box office is only about 70 million US dollars. The final box office in Europe and the United States is estimated to be about 100 million US dollars. There is no way to compare with "Eternal Night".
Compared with "Chu Xing's World"!
After seeing this analysis, some domestic film professionals stepped forward one after another.
"The film directed by Wu Jianye lacked story connotation, which was the ultimate reason for his failure. We all know that the last movie directed by Wu Jianye, "The World of Chu Xing", had a box office of 150 million in North America. Now "Forever"
The movie "Night" only had a box office of 70 million US dollars when it was released in Europe and the United States. According to the predictions of North American authoritative institutions, the box office of this movie in North America will only be around 60 million US dollars at most, while the box office in Europe will be 40 million US dollars!"
"I think this is where Wu Jianye needs to make a review. The more you want to please the audience, the more the movies you make will not be accepted by the audience. The last movie "The World of Chu Xing"
What a great idea. It is precisely because of this story structure that the movie "The World of Chu Xing" can achieve such brilliant achievements. Now in "Eternal Night", I only see the full screen of special effects.
But I didn’t see the real story.”
"The failure of Wu Jianye's "Eternal Night" is that he paid too much attention to the special effects of the movie. However, the special effects of the movie should serve the story content of the movie. At the same time, I also saw another problem with Wu Jianye's movie.
, there are so many characters appearing, and there may even be some indiscriminate situations in the first half of the movie. These are the problems of this movie. To sum up, although Wu Jianye is currently the most acclaimed director in China, he cannot control it.
Good ensemble acting is still a weakness of his!"
Although Wu Jianye has a great influence in China, after all, you can't cover the sky with one hand, especially those who don't rely on making movies, but just talk. Naturally, they don't have that much respect for Wu Jianye's so-called authority.
Afraid.
In China's thousands of years of history, there has always been no shortage of people who challenge authority. Some people really think that authority is wrong, so they challenge authority for the sake of their own hearts.
Some people want to be famous, and the fastest way to become famous is to challenge authority. When you overthrow authority, you become the authority.
This is like the media. They like to create gods, but after they succeed in creating gods, they want to overthrow the authority. The pleasure of controlling the authority's destiny makes them flock to it.
What's more, the audience also likes to watch these.
The emergence of Wu Jianye not only brought the core business of the film industry, such as film production and release, several years ahead of schedule, but also promoted some other peripheral businesses, such as film reviews.
Although there are no professional film critics yet, there are already many professional film professionals who express their opinions on a certain film in various film magazines.
This is actually the job of a film critic.
At the same time, many film magazines and entertainment magazines have appeared in China, and it is no longer time for "popular movies" to dominate the world.
"Movie Age", "Image Dialogue", "Movies You Me Him"...
A series of film magazines have sprung up like bamboo shoots after the rain. Although they cannot challenge the authority of "Popular Cinema", they have already formed a siege.
This is a matter for another world!
At this time, as "Eternal Night" was halfway through its release, many film magazines began to publish their opinions on the movie "Eternal Night".
As I said just now, even if Wu Jianye is the number one person in domestic movies at this time, he still can't cover the sky with one hand.
Therefore, many teachers from acting schools, down-and-out filmmakers who have graduated without making movies, and people who have never been exposed to this industry before can still attract the attention of many readers as long as their comments are eye-catching enough.
These people have become regular readers of various film magazines.
Wu Jianye was at the peak of his career, and his first film "Raise the Red Lantern" won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival.
Since then, he has started his cheating life. In his career of more than ten years, he has always been the number one person in the domestic film industry. Nothing is more eye-catching than challenging Wu Jianye's authority!
So when the movie "Eternal Night" appeared, these people seemed to have their own carnival, and they published some of their opinions on the movie "Eternal Night" in various magazines!
Nowadays, on Wu Jianye's desk, there are not only the box office records of the movie "Eternal Night", but also the opinions of various people on the movie "Eternal Night" published in these movie magazines.
The tone is better, saying that Wu Jianye's mistake this time does not mean anything, it is just a mistake. After all, anyone can make a mistake.
If you have a bad tone, just say directly that Wu Jianye has exhausted his talents. At the same time, the movie "Eternal Night" also completely exposed one of Wu Jianye's shortcomings, that is, he is not good at shooting group scenes...
At the same time, he also said that the fact that this film was not selected into the main competition unit of any film festival is a good proof...
For a time, Wu Jianye was under countless suspicions!
"These people are going too far. Why don't they talk about the box office of this movie?" Li Na said a little aggrievedly.
The box office of the movie "Eternal Night" is still the top in the country and unmatched by anyone.
Wu Jianye chuckled and said, "The mouth is on someone's face, so you can say whatever you want and don't care about them!"
Li Na said dissatisfied: "But if they say this, many people will not go to the cinema to watch our movie. If they hadn't said such nonsense, the box office of our movie would have been higher!"
"Okay, there's no need to talk nonsense with people like this. Believe it or not, the more you talk to them, the happier they will be." Wu Jianye understands the nature of these people very well. To put it bluntly, they just want you to fight back. The more you talk to them, the happier they will be.
Fight back, the more popular they become, and the more popular they become, the more money they make...
As long as you can make money, face is nothing!
"Aren't you angry at all?" Li Na looked at Wu Jianye doubtfully.
Wu Jianye chuckled and said, "Do you think I'm angry?"
Li Na took a serious look at Wu Jianye, and then said with great certainty: "Like!"
Wu Jianye laughed. Li Na had been with him for several years, and she knew him well. Although Wu Jianye said that the more he paid attention to them, the happier they would be, but Wu Jianye had never been one to tell others.
Even though they have lost themselves, they still have to acknowledge them with a smile.
Wu Jianye is just waiting for an opportunity, waiting for a chance to slap them in the face.
And this opportunity is not too far away, it is coming soon!
At this time, someone came in and reported: "Everyone in front of and behind the scenes of "Inception" has arrived and gathered in the conference room!"
Wu Jianye got up, left his office and went directly to the conference room.
Except for the assistant director Ding Sheng, everyone behind the scenes is an old acquaintance. Naturally, no introduction is needed. All the actors in front of the stage are also present.
The dream thief Chen Daohuan, the dream builder Zhou Gongzi, the outpost Xu Zheng, the pretender Duan Yihong, the phantom Zhu Hao, the tycoon Jiang Xi, the target Huang Xiaochu, and the pharmacist Liu Yunlong.
There are also some other actors.
There were almost 20 people in the entire conference room!
"I'm very happy to see that everyone is able to maintain their figure well after the New Year!" Wu Jianye made a joke, and everyone laughed.
In fact, both TV drama crews and movie crews hate celebrating the holidays. One is to increase costs, and the other is to worry that some actors will not be able to control their mouths during the holidays and will make their bodies look out of shape!
When everyone calmed down, Wu Jianye said with a smile.
"The first thing we have gathered together this time is to get everyone familiar with each other. After all, in the next few months, we will all be working together to make a film. The other is to announce the official launch time of the crew!"
"The crew will give a month to let everyone get familiar with the script and each other. One month later, on March 5, the movie "Inception" will officially start shooting. At the same time, before that, there will be a launch event.
ceremony!"
Because of some plots of the movie "Inception", the movie is not set in China, but in Haojiang.
There is no way, just one of the plots about the dream thief Chen Daohuan was accused of killing his wife and fled overseas, and the tycoon Jiang Xiu was able to help him get rid of these prosecutions with just a phone call. It is impossible to place such a plot in China.
It would kill the whole movie.
Neither can Wu Jianye’s movies!
Regarding the plot background, Wu Jianye does not intend to change it. After all, the element of family love is a very important element in the movie, and it is one of the elements that can arouse the audience's empathy the most.
So after Wu Jianye thought about it for a while, he decided to place the movie in Haojiang.
As for the one-month preparation time, Wu Jianye did not decide it arbitrarily. First of all, the filming locations for the movie "Inception" were spread across several countries, and the sets in some of these places also need to be prepared now.
At the same time, your train that appears in the movie also needs to be prepared in advance.
In order to pursue the authenticity of this movie, many scenes will be shot in real locations and will not be shot in a studio at all. This is also to provide the audience with more authentic pictures.
At the same time, some actors also have to apply for overseas visas, which takes time.
Wu Jianye explained all these at this meeting.
Naturally, everyone had no objections.
Chen Daohuan and Zhu Xian have both worked with Wu Jianye. They naturally know Wu Jianye's pursuit of making movies, so they don't feel anything about the shooting plan proposed by Wu Jianye.
On the other hand, people like Xu Zheng, who was working with Wu Jianye for the first time, were really surprised. They didn't expect that in order to shoot a movie, they would take the entire crew to fly to five or six countries. This kind of thing is still rare in China.
First time!
When everyone was just getting familiar with filming in Hengdian, Wu Jianye had already started taking the crew to overseas locations, which was a big move.
However, these young people are still very excited. After all, this is a legitimate opportunity to go abroad. Many of them have never been abroad before.
Especially for an actor like Duan Yihong, with his family situation, even in China, he only went from his hometown to Yanjing, and has never been to other places. Now that he is about to go abroad, I am still looking forward to it.
"I believe everyone knows my rules for making movies. During the filming, I hope every actor will show your professional attitude. I don't want any unprofessional situation to occur. Don't blame me for turning your back and swearing at others!"
Wu Jianye once again emphasized the discipline of the crew. In fact, Wu Jianye would emphasize his discipline in filming every time before starting the filming. This has become an iron rule during the preparation of each new crew.
Everyone also knew Wu Jianye's name as a tyrant on the set, so when Wu Jianye announced this rule, everyone took it to heart.
No one took it seriously!
Wu Jianye then announced some things, and then took everyone to the Tangting shooting base in Zhuxinzhuang. He came here not for filming, but for everyone to get familiar with each other, and also to get familiar with each other before the filming started.
Movie plot.
Every day after that, everyone would come here, even the press conference of "Inception" was held here.
At the same time, there will be a special car to pick everyone up every day, which saves everyone from worries.
A week later, many domestic film magazines and TV stations received notifications of the press conference of "Inception"!