Guo Fanzheng and Li Qian bid farewell with affectionate faces.
"I am leaving!"
"Take care of yourself!"
"See you in two years!"
"Well, go ahead."
"I'm really leaving!"
"Be quick and go quickly."
"Why do you seem so eager for me to leave? You don't show any sign at all!"
"If you don't leave, if you're still here grinding and whining, the plane will fly over the Pacific Ocean. Hurry up."
"I'm going to be away for two years, are you not reluctant to leave me?"
"Do you want me to cry to you?"
"...That's okay, just cry affectionately."
"I know how to mourn. Do you want one?"
"Okay!"
"piss off!"
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A few people pretended to laugh and curse for a long time before Guo Fan took hold of the suitcase and said to Li Qian and the others with a proud look on his face, "Just wait and see, when I come back in two years, I will definitely make a movie."
A science fiction blockbuster that will blind your eyes!"
After saying that, he turned around and left quite gracefully.
"Let's go too."
Li Qian greeted everyone to leave the airport and got into his business car.
As soon as he got in the car, Qi Yukun was filled with emotion, "Lao Guo has been clamoring to make a science fiction blockbuster every day, but he never thought that one day he would actually do it."
Su Lun smiled and said, "I went to Hollywood to study for two years. With this perseverance, how can I believe that he can actually make it?"
Wen Muye said, "Although Lao Guo sometimes doesn't do well, it's obvious that he really likes science fiction and wants to make a good science fiction blockbuster."
Li Qian laughed and said, "If he doesn't take good pictures, I'll have my skin peeled off by him. The cost of selling him for 400 million won't even be worth that much."
"Haha..." Everyone burst into laughter.
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After sending Guo Fan away, Warner will arrange for him to study on a large-scale production crew.
Although the cost of "The Wandering Earth" will be around 400 million no matter what, we can only start preparations after Guo Fan returns in two years.
The money for acquiring the digital field has basically been recovered from the adaptation rights of "Jaws 3", so the funds are still abundant.
The digital field has been acquired, and it will be joined in the creation of Xu Ke's "Ghost Blowing the Lamp".
But not yet, Zhong Lifang is starting to divide the digital field and transfer many businesses to domestic branches.
There is a group of domestic special effects engineers who are willing to come to China. The domestic branch itself has acquired a special effects company. In addition, several other domestic technical experts who are close to retirement have been rehired, which is enough to support the special effects of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp".
In fact, there are some special effects experts in China. A professor at Beijing Normal University was a director at Industrial Light and Magic.
However, these big names basically focus on fine arts, unlike Hollywood where they focus on engineering.
Most of the shots for "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" could have been made by Digital Field's domestic branch. The technology is completely sufficient. There will not be many shots that need to be taken to North America by Digital Field. The cost of 200 million should be enough.
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Anyway, Xu Ke himself is the kind of unconstrained technical control. He will discuss this aspect with the special effects company himself, and Li Qian will not interfere.
None of the other projects are being directed by newbies. Whether it's the sequel to Xu Zheng's "Unfortunate Journey" or Wu Jing's "Wolf Warrior", they are all relatively mature directors, so Li Qian doesn't need to ask anything.
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Before the National Day, "The Truman Show" was screened for seven days and even overshadowed many movies on the National Day schedule.
It is true that every National Day movie can hit the mark, and "Tongque Terrace", which was released first, was the first shot of the National Day movie.
However, this blockbuster starring Zhou Runfa and Liu Yufei only received more than 6 million at the box office on the first day.
Of course, in the news, "Tongque Terrace" became the first-day sales hit 10 million.
As for this kind of news, none of the news that reports on box office has an exact figure, so it is basically filled with water.
The film schedule was the best, and there were no competitors. On the first day, I only got 6 million, which was like rushing to my grandma’s house.
The whole movie is basically about a sudden change in the sky, with four stars merging into one, so Cao Cao's son and his subordinates planned to use this opportunity to promote the abdication of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty and Cao Cao's registration.
Then other princes are also taking action. The heroine played by Liu Yufei is kidnapped by the army and trained as a killer to assassinate Cao Cao. What follows is a series of sieges and love and hatred.
Other princes wanted to kill Cao Cao, Liu Xie wanted to kill Cao Cao, Queen Fu wanted to kill Cao Cao, and even Cao Pi couldn't wait any longer, so he wanted to replace Cao Cao with a fake one, and even occupied the queen.
The cast behind the scenes of the movie is very strong, including Zhao Xiaoding, Zhang Yimou’s royal photographer, Tao Jing, the country’s top sound recordist, Xi Zhongwen, who has won the Academy Award for Best Styling for ten times, Mei Linmao, the Japanese soundtrack master, and Hinata Taneda, the god of film art, who are not top-notch
Big directors can't assemble this behind-the-scenes lineup.
However, coupled with the advertising director Zhao Linshan, who was making a movie for the first time, what he made was a bad movie.
The inspiration for the movie came from Cao Cao's tomb. When it was dug out, there was the skeleton of a young woman in the coffin. So the director specifically targeted Cao Cao's tomb and made this film about the old Cao Cao's strategy, military, love and his poetry.
aspects of the story.
In the past, when people criticized domestic blockbusters of period movies, they said that period movies were just a group of ancient people fighting. However, this movie turned out to be better, with the whole story talking about how Cao Cao was originally a good person.
Liu Yufei, the assassin, was also impressed by Cao Cao. She spent most of the scene talking about how great Cao Cao was.
In the past, director Xiangjiang was criticized for making a costume film without any knowledge of history, but this time the director was not as good as the one made by director Xiangjiang.
The first National Day blockbuster hit the streets, and "Tai Chi 1" released on the 27th was almost the same, with 8 million on the first day.
The formula of this movie is quite old. It is a story about a fool who becomes a master. It is nondescript as a whole. It mixes Kung Fu, steampunk, video games, comics and other elements together, and the result is that it is all different.
Players who like martial arts RPGs will probably be interested. Every time you go to a new scene in this movie, game-like subtitles like village gates, pharmacies, ancestral halls, and a certain mountain will pop up, just like the game map.
This two-part series has a total investment of more than 200 million, and the first one grossed 8 million at the box office on the first day, which is already a blockbuster.
During the National Day holiday, there were also two romance films starring Zhang Ziyi and Fan Binbin. The wait at the box office was about the same, but in the end they barely exceeded 100 million.
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On September 29, this year's Hundred Flowers Awards ceremony was also held in Shaoxing, and Li Qian also appeared with a large group of people.
"I'm Not the God of Medicine" was nominated for basically all awards except Best Newcomer and Best Actress.
Several other films were also nominated, but only "Thirty-day Love" was nominated for four awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress.
The red carpet waiting area had a dim atmosphere. Only Li Qian's crew had more people, but few first-line stars came.
Seeing that there were only a few famous actors and directors around him, Li Qian shook his head and said, "This time the Hundred Flowers Award is a joke."
Deng Chao half-joked, "The Federation of Literary and Art Circles has been aloof for too long. In fact, they don't care about the actors and directors in the industry."
"If you want to maintain their status and authority, you won't be able to ignore them in the future."
Li Qian scoffed. In recent years, Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers have been too controversial. Not only the audience was dissatisfied, but the actors and directors in the industry were also unhappy.
It's a good thing this year, no one will come at all.
At the opening ceremony a few days ago, the only A-list actor present was Xie Tingfeng, and the only other A-list star was the popular singer Pan Weibo.
Just two A-list celebrities came to support the show, which directly forced the organizing committee to cancel the red carpet of the opening ceremony, which caused a big joke.
Questions poured in from all sides, and the vice chairman of the organizing committee said that there was no red carpet at the opening ceremony of the Hundred Flowers Awards.
The opening ceremony of every previous session was held, could it be spontaneous?
The organizing committee was adamant and said directly that the big-name celebrities did not come to participate because they were afraid of being embarrassed by not winning the prize.
He also said that celebrities and big names were brought out by the film festival. After they won the award, they stopped coming to the film festival. They were also very depressed.
Stars from all walks of life were really disrespectful and none of them came. The director of "Tongque Terrace" even directly spoke rudely to Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers, "I only heard about this film festival three days ago!"
He's very rigid, but as an advertising director, he can still get through it.
Having a background means being tough.
Big stars and directors from all walks of life are more tough than before. In fact, now that they have made more money, have greater influence, and have a higher social status, they don't want to be angry, so they just don't come.
However, the dim star of the Hundred Flowers Award does not hinder people from making money at all.
In the past, the highest ticket price for Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers was 1,880 yuan. This year, the lowest seat price was 1,680 yuan, and the highest one even reached 5,680 yuan.
If this was a company, it would have gone bankrupt long ago, which is why the officials have the confidence to do so.
Even so, there is still no need to worry about selling tickets, and the closing ceremony is quite lively, after all, the awards are about to be given.
However, Li Qian accounted for half of the first-line actors present.
I walked the red carpet boringly, took my seat at the Keqiao Textile City International Convention and Exhibition Center, and waited for the closing ceremony to begin.
In fact, this kind of film festival becomes boring if you attend it too many times. It stays the same every year.
Officials from all walks of life gave speeches one by one, and then there were performances.
There is nothing interesting about the show, except that the performers are famous, and this year Cheng Long sang in the finale.
There was almost no suspense in the award ceremony. For the tranquility in "Revolution of 1911", Sun Chun won the Best Supporting Actor and Actor.
At the same time, "Revolution of 1911" and "Tangshan Earthquake" jointly won the outstanding feature film, "Love Is Not Blind" is a bit regretful.
There is no way, this year marks the 100th anniversary of the Revolution of 1911. Even if the crew of "I'm Not the God of Medicine" gets nothing, "Revolution of 1911" must still win awards.
The former is most often criticized by the organizing committee, who just pretends to be an ostrich and gets away with it.
If it's the latter, the Federation of Literary and Art Circles should be purged.
Tong Liya successfully won her first Hundred Flowers Award for "Thirty-day Love", and it wasn't much of a surprise that "Warm Heart" should have won it.
Xu Zheng achieved a grand slam at the Mainland Film Festival and won the Baihua Best Actor.
The following awards for Best Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Film all went to "I'm Not the God of Medicine," which also achieved a Grand Slam at the Mainland Film Festival.
For the best film, the producer usually accepts the award, but the producer is also Li Qian, so he only has to go on stage again.
After being on stage three times, Li Qian could only thank him once again.
In order to make it less monotonous, the host did not let Li Qian go down so quickly and asked about competing for the Olympics.
"Director Li, "The Truman Show" will be a landmark mainland film competing for the Oscars next year. Are you confident in its bid for the Oscars?"
Isn’t this asking for nothing? Are you saying you don’t have confidence?
Li Qian looked at the thousands of expectant filmmakers and audiences in the audience, thought for a while, nodded and said, "I have confidence in my film, but it is a Hollywood award after all, so I can only say that I will try not to disappoint everyone.
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In fact, the older generation of filmmakers takes the matter of competing for the Olympics most seriously. Most of the older generation of filmmakers in their fifties and sixties in the audience still have great expectations for Li Qian.
Although commercial films are not in line with their taste, realistic-themed films like "I'm Not the God of Medicine" still catch their eyes. Unlike other commercial film directors, Li Qian's senses are quite good.
After saying a few words casually, Li Qian stepped down, and then the vice chairman of the organizing committee came to the stage to speak.
He returned to his position with the trophy, holding it in his arms as a sign of respect.
Although Li Qian doesn't care much, whether it is the best director or the best picture, for others, it is something that can only be met but not sought.
Xu Zheng, who had just won the Best Actor Award, stared eagerly at the Best Director trophy in Li Qian's hand. He is not only an actor, but also a director. He has proven himself at the box office. His debut film has already exceeded 200 million, and he has to pursue awards.
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Another person who was jealous was Teng Huatao. While he was jealous, he secretly thought that it was a pity that Baihua encountered Li Qian's "I'm Not the God of Medicine" this year, otherwise he would have had a chance.
However, Li Qian's next movie will be a comedy, and it will no longer be this kind of subject. There is still a chance for his own new movie.
He is already preparing a script for his new film, this time it is adapted by Jingjing Bao, and it is also a love story. However, after the success at the box office, Teng Huatao's ambitions have become even greater.
He is no longer satisfied with the simple box office, and plans to add something deeper to the movie, which is both commercial and artistic!
Li Qian was a little tired holding the trophy. He showed respect to the film festival after holding it for so long. He simply gave one to Deng Chao and Wang Baoqiang, who were empty-handed next to him, to share the burden.
I haven’t seen Wang Baoqiang for a long time. In the past year or so, the company has not had any suitable films for him, so it’s a bit unfair to him. Li Qian thought about it and smiled at him, “Baoqiang, I recently had an idea.
It will take some time to create a movie tailor-made for you.”
However, to Li Qian's surprise, Wang Baoqiang did not look happy at all when he heard this. Instead, he stared at Li Qian with a resentful look on his face, opened his mouth, and said nothing.
"???"
What kind of expression is this? Shouldn't it be happy?
Or is it that movies tailor-made for him are not attractive?
It shouldn’t be!
At this time, Deng Chao suddenly couldn't help laughing, slapped his thigh, and laughed happily, "You told Bao Qiang this a year and a half ago, and he has been waiting for you for more than a year.
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"Is this happening?" Li Qian was stunned.
"That time when our company was first established, Bao Qiang and I came to the company as you said." Deng Chao reminded.
Generally speaking, it is inappropriate to say this kind of thing in front of the boss, but we are all friends, and Deng Chao also knows Li Qian's character. If he didn't say anything to his own people, he must be too busy and forget about it.
Moreover, although he and Wang Baoqiang are the only two first-line actors in the company, there is no competition at all. Not to mention that he has just acted in "The Truman Show" and there is also "The Pursuit of Happyness" waiting for him.
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After saying this, Li Qian remembered it, as if he had really said it. No wonder Wang Baoqiang had a resentful expression on his face.
Li Qian smiled apologetically, "I really forgot. I'm sorry, Bao Qiang. I will find a suitable director to prepare it after I finish the Lunar New Year holiday."
"It's okay, boss, I have a movie to take now."
What else could Wang Baoqiang do? He could only touch his head, smile naively, and repeatedly express that he was fine.
Year after year, if Li Qian forgets tomorrow, there is nothing he can do.
"Director Li, is the comedy you tailor-made for Baoqiang?" Xu Zheng asked curiously.
"Yes, it's mainly comedy, but there are also some other elements." Li Qian nodded.
Xu Zheng immediately felt a little nervous. Originally, Zhou Xingchi had not left the film industry, and Ma Xiaogang had changed careers. Ning Hao and Huang Bo were the only ones left in the domestic comedy market.
He himself has a hit of over RMB 200 million in "The Road to Misfortune", which can be said to have a huge advantage in comedy films.
However, Zhou Xingchi's new film was released, Li Qian made another comedy, and now he wanted to create a comedy tailor-made for Wang Baoqiang. Competition in the comedy field suddenly increased.
But I am more happy for Wang Baoqiang. A grassroots person can reach this point. Unless he is dark and wishes others good things, he will bless and encourage him. After all, it is not easy.
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The Hundred Flowers Award was over, and Li Qian led everyone out of the venue.
I said hello to other colleagues at the entrance of the venue, and also met Huang Zhonglei. He came with the crew of "Tangshan Earthquake". Ma Xiaogang didn't come, so he had to come.
Looking at Teng Huatao walking with Li Qian, coupled with the failure of the summer release and the poor box office of the National Day release of "Tai Chi 1", Huang Zhonglei, who had not encountered Shu Xinshi in the second half of the year, almost got angry in his eyes.
"Hi, Mr. Huang, long time no see."
Li Qian, who was in a good mood, waved and greeted Huang Zhongjun with a smile.
In Huang Zhonglei's eyes, this scene was more like sarcasm and showing off. He stared at Li Qian coldly, uttered an unobservable "Bah" in his mouth, turned around and left.
"An uneducated guy who doesn't know any manners."
Li Qian spread his hands, feeling bored.
Everyone couldn't help but laugh, Li Qian was quite a loser sometimes.