ALL NOVEL Chapter 139
Li Zhiming put down his chopsticks and picked up his upside-down phone. He opened the screen and saw that Secretary He had sent the box office data.
"Oh, it's out already."
"Come on, I suddenly feel the excitement of watching a football game."
Li Zhiming's smile froze,"Don't curse your own movie, okay?"
"I said it wrong, I said it wrong, hahaha, the excitement of watching a table tennis match, okay?"
Li Zhiming opened the file and his eyes lit up.
"It's really amazing! 2.31 billion on the first day in China, 190 million more than Titan"
"So high? In a month, it should be around 60, right?"
"Yes." Li Zhiming continued,"Overseas, the North American market took in $50 million on the first day, plus Europe, Japan, South Korea and other places, a total of $180 million."
Hearing this number, Zhou Tao frowned slightly,"Isn't the overseas market a bit low? Especially North America, why is it so low?"
He specifically checked the data. The highest record for the first day box office in North America this year is more than 60 million US dollars. With the quality of"Interstellar", it should be easily surpassed.
Li Zhiming smiled and said,"Are you confused by your happiness? The time difference. We are releasing the film here at 18:00 on Friday night. North America is 12 to 15 hours behind us. This first-day data is equivalent to the data from Friday morning to Saturday morning, which is definitely low. The overseas box office depends on the data of the first weekend."
"Right, right." Zhou Tao nodded.
He remembered that the figure of more than 60 million US dollars seemed to be released on Saturday.
《Interstellar was released on Friday, and it caught up with the first day data on Saturday. It seems to be really strong.
"By the way, foreign films haven't boycotted us either?"
Li Zhiming took a sip of tea and smiled:"In order to fight against monopoly, generally speaking, production, theaters, and distribution are separated and not in the same company. Production companies certainly want to boycott. But how can distribution and theaters listen to them? Who can resist money? Quality crushes. Unless the government intervenes, it can't be stopped."
At this point, the smile on his face slowly faded.
《Farewell My Concubine and Interstellar are going well.
But Kung Fu may not be so lucky.
《After"Farewell My Concubine","Kung Fu" was released. The cultural output is too fast, and foreign governments may really intervene. However
, given the overwhelming quality of the works, people's desire to see good works is unstoppable.
……
At the same time as they got the box office news.
The film and television industry, academia, and crews also got the news.
Chen Xiao glanced at the box office, then exited the box office data file and began to set up the housekeeper robot sent by Chengfeng Express.
The first day box office is just a piece of data, just a look to satisfy curiosity.
The total box office for the first month is real gold coins.
Just halfway through the setting, I heard the robot say:"Handsome, rich, and never fat master, there is an email for you."
Chen Xiao was stunned.
Eh? How does it know my characteristics?
Oh, I remember.
He just clicked on the random name. It's random, he thought it was so smart.
The built-in name is pretty stupid.
He opened the mailbox and saw that it was an email from his father's school.
He was invited to give lectures again and serve as an honorary professor, preferably with students.
With students?
Kill him?
He didn't want to take people like himself and his former roommate.
I still remember that my roommate sent his paper to his tutor, and the tutor replied to him:"After reading your paper, I was more upset than the divorce lawsuit with my wife. Can you delete my name from the acknowledgments?"
According to the roommate, he and the tutor had a lot of arguments at the defense.
Chen Xiao originally thought he was bragging, but later he found out that it was indeed the truth.
The roommate was responsible for the arguments.
The tutor was responsible for the debate with the scholars.
Hiss - if this kind of scene happened to him, as an internationally renowned director, he would shine in the film and television industry and lose face in the education industry.
No! He wants to live a few more years.
It is important to cultivate talents.
I can give lectures, but I will never be a tutor!
Chen Xiao typed quickly and replied to the email.
Basically, he could give an online lecture on"Audiovisual Language" for three hours, talking about composition, camera movement, lighting, and color.
He asked to record the screen and upload it to the Internet for everyone to watch and learn.
I just replied to the school's email.
I received some invitations for cooperation and co-production. I replied briefly and then washed up and went to bed.
……
The National Day holiday passed quickly.
In these few days, domestic and foreign media people watched the movie with a magnifying glass, and combined with the interview with Princess Guan Liu, they did a lot of analysis.
There are film majors in foreign universities, which directly use interview videos and Chen Xiao’s previous movies to teach students, and analyze shooting techniques. It has set off a huge wave in the professional field.
The response in the entertainment field is of course even more intense.
Fans organized their own support activities, and robot figures have also become popular.
Even corn has been hot-selling for a few days.
Some people bought corn grown by the crew.
Others... in the words of fans, chewing corn makes the ethereal music echo in their minds and dream back to the vast universe.
The noisy holiday passed quickly.
On the afternoon of the 8th, Chen Xiao sorted out the detailed text script and the storyboard script, and was planning the casting and scenes.
The phone at hand rang, and when I picked it up, it was Secretary He's call
"Hello, Director Chen, the core team has been found and the list has been sent to you. They are all members of the previous two crews. I have asked about their schedules and they are all free recently. You can have the meeting anytime you want."
Chen Xiao was slightly stunned.
The list was finalized on the first day of work. Doesn't Secretary He have a break?
I heard that the system is quite competitive now, but I didn't expect it to be so competitive. It's not easy in all walks of life.
He thought for a moment,"Then let's have number 10."
"OK, so it's the same old place?"
""Okay."
The two chatted for a few more words and hung up the phone.
Chen Xiao leaned against the back of the chair and breathed a sigh of relief.
There are still 4 months from now to the Spring Festival.
《Kung Fu is not difficult to shoot. It does not require running around to take pictures, nor does it require waiting for plants to grow.
Its focus is on scene construction and characters.
As for the scenes, the police station, the casino, and the long street outside the police station can be filmed in the film and television city of Shanghai.
Pig Cage City needs to be built and set separately.
The construction is not difficult. Compared with the previous ship and street construction, this is a small project.
The difficulty lies in the setting. It is necessary to carefully arrange the living environment of the neighborhood in combination with the living habits of the lower class people nearly a hundred years ago.
Thinking of this, Chen Xiao picked up his mobile phone and opened the file.
Who is the art director?
Oh, Wang Rui.
Yes, it must be him.
Because the first two times were Fang Rong and Wang Rui.
He proposed to select people from the first two times, and invited Fang Rong to be the director of photography, so the art director must be Wang Rui.
Wang Rui is no problem.
You were tired last time, right? This time he doesn't need to spend physical energy, just mental energy. Go and check the living scenes of nearly a hundred years ago and restore them.
I will do this work with him.
In addition to restoring the scenes, the second key task is casting.
Casting can be said to be the most important task in the early stage
《In the movie"Kung Fu", the character portrayal is unique.
This requires the actors to have a high level of role understanding and acting skills. They must even have martial arts skills. When the three conditions are added together, casting is a difficult task that requires hard work.
The casting director who cooperates with him is...
Chen Xiao picked up his phone and saw that the casting director is Sun Li.
Secretary He has a good eye.
Both Sun Li and Huang Peng are fine. If you have to choose between the two, Sun Li is indeed more suitable, with rich qualifications and the ability to hold his own.
But he also has shortcomings, his car is bad and often breaks down.
If he hasn't changed his car yet, the crew should lend him a car.
Thinking of this, Chen Xiao put down his phone and continued to refine the preparations.