Hollywood Hunter - Chapter 1530: : Four movies, two schedules

The Jinshu team waited for about a week, and Simon finally took a few hours to discuss the next development of Jinshu with everyone on September 3rd.

I once again answered some of the doubts raised by Ren Jingxi’s advice from Simon last week. Others are mainly a few specific projects that Jinshu will try next. The four films are initially determined, which is a bit more than the previous discussions of the Jinshu series. Moreover, it is basically around the suggestion in Simon’s email. This time it is considered that all the specific films including the name have been finalized.

The first is “The Dragon King of Di Renjie”.

That’s right, it was the one directed by Old Monster Xu, and this time I plan to invite Old Monster Xu to direct.

Lao Xu tried to follow the crowd to enter Hollywood two years ago. Unfortunately, he failed. He has returned to Hong Kong now. Coupled with the trough of Hong Kong films in recent years, there will be no major obstacles to cooperation between the two parties. With the accommodating of the filmmakers, Jinshu still has considerable initiative this time.

After all, without the initiative, there will be no cooperation.

Old Monster Xu is suitable for this movie, and he can also make magical works, but it can also make people suffer from nosebleeds. Just like in the past, the two “Shushan” before and after the old monster are both obsessive, but unfortunately they are not. Can succeed. So much so that Simon had also had an idea about “Shushan” before, but he has never meant to implement it.

In short, this time, Simon’s expectation is to be able to reach the previous level, not to seek a breakthrough, but not to make a mess.

The second part is “Detective Chinatown”.

In fact, the film similar to the overseas investigation mode appeared in the original time and space probably during this period, and it is still a very famous one, which is the “Tony Raiders” starring Tony Liang, and the subsequent filming of “Hancheng Raiders” was made many years later. “And “European Raiders.”

At least in the first part, there should be no commercial losses, otherwise there will be no later two parts.

Of course, the strategy series is similar to the Detective series. The plot structure and character settings are quite different. We can only say the creativity of the film and television industry. In fact, there has never been a new one. The key is to see whether you can get new wine in old bottles. Do it well.

Therefore, compared with the clear thinking “Di Renjie: The God of the Dragon King”, Simon will hesitate a lot about “Detective Chinatown”.

The main reason is that the story of “Dragon King of the Gods” does not have high requirements for the protagonist, and the core is the unconstrained imagination of Old Monster Xu. It is easy to find a suitable protagonist to support the project at the moment. As for “Detective Chinatown,” the previous couple, the nephew said, it was easy to find a suitable niche, but uncle, um, even if it was a watch, it was not easy to get a fit.

There is also the director, and Simon has no eyebrows for a while.

In fact, I think of the director of the Raiders series, but, because there are completely two styles, think about it and forget it.

The script can only be made first, and the others will be pondered slowly.

The third project, “Painted Skin”.

This once the first director directly PASS, the main creator also immediately confirmed that a Mongolian director with a black word had the box office gap between the two “Painted Skin”, the former was in the early 200 million, and the latter directly increased the box office by three times. At 700 million, even with the rapid growth of the Chinese film market, it can be seen that the Mongolian directors’ commercial film skills can be seen.

In fact, Simon had a similar plan from the beginning, so when the other party came to Hollywood to communicate, he arranged for him to go to Daenerys’s very fancy “Lord of the Rings” trilogy crew.

At the moment the other party is making a low-cost martial arts, which can be regarded as the result of Simon’s quiet arrangement, because the other party used to start a low-cost martial arts called “Swordsman”, the cost of 6 million, and the box office of 20 million, although the budget I was struggling, but I was very thoughtful.

This time is an adaptation project of an original martial arts novel produced by this time-space butterfly. It is called “Tong Tian Pu”. It tells the reappearance of a “Tong Tian Pu” that is both a treasure map and a martial arts secret book once every sixty years. All kinds of people from the rivers and lakes come to compete, all kinds of mantises are hunting cicadas, and the oriole is behind.

The story is not too new. Simone wanted to let people send the completed sample shots to see, and the quality was better than the other party’s “Swordsman”.

So directly finalized the director of “Painted Skin”.

The last one is the non-revolutionary theme that Simon and Ren Jingxi talked to during the weekend in San Lucas. The names are in the same order as before. The first is “My Motherland and Me”.

This project is still planning to cooperate with China Film, mainly considering the appeal of China Film, so that many actors can come to play for free.

Um.

The schedule is next year’s National Day, and the budget is not too high compared to the first three plans to invest 80 million blockbusters, and it can be done with about 20 to 30 million yuan. Simon didn’t say much about the specific excerpts of the story. He is an ‘outsider’, and it would seem too weird to say too much, so let the Jinshu team choose the material by itself.

In addition to the four items, during the discussion, Simon also gave Jin Shu another suggestion.

On the Chinese side, next, we should train a group of film actors. Simply put, they should only appear on the big screen as much as possible, so that the audience can see each other. The first thought is that this is a movie.

In fact, it’s roughly like the Hollywood side.

Film, TV, and music circles, although Hollywood does not have absolute boundaries, but the circles are still very obvious.

As for the reasons, from a commercial point of view, this actually involves a consumer mentality.

If the audience can see a certain person in any TV series or variety show, and the other person appears on the big screen, it is easy for the audience to feel that the movie does not seem to have enough style. Therefore, for many people, When I look at the main creator list, I probably don’t even have the idea of ​​buying tickets to enter the venue.

In China, the most typical one was Fan Ye.

Compared with other Chinese actresses, Fan Pang has appeared in a lot of movies, but even some well-reviewed movies can hardly leave the audience too much influence. The public remembers each other more, perhaps only the red carpet, or, ” The little maid in “Returning the Pearl”.

why?

The reason is that it is too mixed, and everything is mixed, so that there is no clear position in the public’s mind. Some people even think that Fan Pang would only live on the red carpet afterwards, and it seems that there is no film and television work.

The fact is definitely not.

Of course, this kind of blossoming approach makes a lot of money, but from the perspective of the owner of a film and television company, the huge investment in their own projects will not be a waste of money. This kind of artist is better to use less.

In addition to these things, two other projects related to the Chinese film and television circles have also been finalized recently.

The first is “Dragon Babu”.

The essential editing version of the project is still being worked on, mainly by the Chinese team. After all, it is cheap, but the full version of the subtitles has been completed.

Simon did not intend to dub the full version. After all, it is a martial arts man. It is just the name “Heavenly Dragon”. Literally translated in English, Eightfold Path of the Heavenly Dragon (the eight-story road of the Heavenly Dragon), let alone foreigners who are confused and understand English. Chinese people, if you look at it again, you will probably be at a loss.

There is also a paraphrase, Demi-gods, lustful-devils, ‘half gods and half demons’. Simon is actually not satisfied.

In a compromise, I chose the latter in the end. After all, it’s somewhat interesting.

Just a name is already confusing, let alone many martial arts moves. Therefore, although China has found a group of excellent translators for the production of the English version, and considered the complete dubbing version, Simon did not agree.

Subtitles are enough. Those who like to watch will definitely watch it, but those who don’t like it will probably not watch it even if a whole set of nondescript dubbing is given.

In short, the full version of the subtitles are all completed, and the broadcast time has been confirmed recently. On September 6, DHO TV, the late-night file from 11 pm to 1 am, is not a traditional weekly broadcast, but just like the Chinese side. , Two episodes a day.

Besides, there will be no window period this time. After DHO is broadcast, Blockbuster’s DVD will be put on the shelves immediately. Of course, there will be no video tapes. After all, the cost of video tapes is too high, let alone a full set of 40-episode long-form TV series. Even the release of DVD will not be too much.

Then, when the essence version is completed, we will consider whether to give better schedules and publicity resources based on this broadcast and rental data, or if the full version is too bad, it is not impossible to give up directly.

The second is the documentary “Mount Everest”.

Simon saw the sample and didn’t plan to modify it, so the next step was to make a copy of IMAX and start the announcement at the same time.

After the acquisition of the Canadian IMAX company, I have unknowingly advanced for several years. At present, the number of IMAX screens in the world has been 322, of which there are 139 in North America, and there are more overseas in China. , Jinshu Studios 34, each has a standard IMAX screen, so it is 34 yuan. For other countries, the remaining 149 pieces were divided in total.

The main reason why there are not so many is that the Western countries that have already completed extensive theater infrastructure construction cannot accommodate the standard IMAX size. Even if Simon has slightly relaxed some standards, it is always impossible to shrink it too much, and most of them still have to. Daenerys paid out of her pocket for funding.

In any case, more than 300 IMAX screens in the world are actually quite impressive.

Considering that the previous “Mount Everest” documentary can get more than 80 million US dollars in the box office in North America, Simon is not too stingy this time. In addition to the IMAX copy cost, he also gave an additional 3 million US dollars of publicity investment, including Production costs, the total cost of the project has exceeded 10 million US dollars.

The planned schedule is September 24th. Because IMAX copy costs are too expensive, it will only be opened in North America first, and overseas countries need to wait for the projection potential of this side to be exhausted before receiving copies.

Of course, this is mainly based on the premise that this documentary is not very successful.

If the project sells as big as it once was, Daenerys will definitely invest in making more copies and roll it out globally as soon as possible.