The Best Director - Chapter 440

Regardless of how Flame Film and Wen Ziren & Ray Warner both “peacefully broke up” and “we are still our best friends”, to the outside world, it is definitely a sign of discord between the two to switch to the world!

At the same time, most of the new film projects of FF in the next two years will be strange, and Wang Yiyang has used several of his ace producers and directors, and won the double material annual championship to reach an unprecedented peak. What performance will FF have in the next few years. Still bewildered and start to go downhill? Or will it maintain the miraculous power of living and continue to overthrow mainstream big producers such as Warner Bros., Sony, Paramount, Universal, etc.?

Being able to dig the foot of the wall of FF and ushering in the father of two magnificent chainsaws, Universal is inevitably proud of it, it seems like it has been half magical! Universal spokesperson Cindy Gardner said: “With the proof of the” SAW “series, why do we not expect” Death “? Universal hasn’t even said,” “Death” is better than “SAW” Success! “This 20 million budget horror movie has been scheduled to land in April 2007.

At the same time, there will certainly be no shortage of horror films, such as “The Tomb”, “Harvest” … and at that time, the flame movie also has a plan to release. Wang Yiyang initiated and produced and screened the action comedy “Green Hornet”, which is likely to be staged by himself The drama of the “traitor”.

To say why FF always invites doubts, because its projects are always so unusual, for example, “Green Hornet” is going to be a superhero comedy, and it also brings together the “King of Comedy” Kim-Kerry and Zhou Xingchi in Hollywood and Hong Kong. Together, the two old guys who are 88 years old and nearly one hundred years old together this year. But in fact, the early publicity achieved by this project is very good. The audience of fans who love comedy think it is very attractive. The two starring actors are the kind of king who can laugh at you without talking, and they ca n’t wait to wait. Want to see its appearance, a good laugh.

“It’s hard to imagine the chemical reactions they produced when they were together.” More than one movie fan who knows Kim-Kerry and loves Stephen-Chou said, compared to the plot story of “Green Hornet”, this is the most interesting. Looking forward, even the film critic Roger Albert expressed his expectations when talking about the movies in the next few years: “Kerry + Zhou + Old Cork + Magic Yang, God knows what comedy effects these guys will bring . “

Since the addition of Steve Odecock, the progress of “Green Hornet” has quickly made a big breakthrough. In the fourth quarter of last year, three people completed the script adaptation work, which is still in the preparation stage and will be in this year 5 Started shooting in the month, killing before August, directed by Zhou Xingchi.

Zhou Xingchi’s reputation in North America is due to “Kung Fu”, which was released last year. The film received a total of 17.1 million North American box offices. The widest screenings were in 2,503 theaters in North America; and its global box office was $ 109 million. Do n’t look at the 17.1 million box office, it seems to be very rare. It is already the eighth place in the box office rankings of North American foreign language film history (1⑨80-present). The highest is 128 million “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” Bay), the second place is “The Beautiful Life” (Italy) of 57.56 million, the third place is “Heroes” (China) of 53.71 million … The tenth place is “Iron Horse Durian” of 14.69 million (middle圌 国 香 圌 港).

As a person who has loved movies and “skilled multilingualism” since childhood, Wang Qiyang has a hard time understanding why most North American audiences are so narrow and uninterested in watching subtitled foreign language films, thus missing countless classic movies, such as his beloved “Heaven” “Cinema” had only 12.39 million North American box office that year, the market has not changed for more than a decade, but this is the status quo. After all, there are too many choices of hot English movies on the poster wall of the theater.

However, although “Kung Fu” can be ranked eighth, Wang Qiyang and the Flame Publishing Department feel very sorry for it. If it is released by FF, they are confident that the box office of “Kung Fu” will be more than 50 million.

Not to mention the issue of schedule selection, just in April, today ’s publisher Sony Classic still makes a big mistake. It treats “Kung Fu” without the patience of “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”, or “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” “The great success made them think about things simple.

In the first week of “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”, there were 16 theaters, and the screening of less than 200 companies lasted 5 weeks, 8 weeks of less than 1,000 companies, and the widest of the 2027 companies in the 16th week. It took 32 weeks to show the whole picture; “Kung Fu” ended its journey in 19 weeks. It was only screened in 7 theaters in the first two weeks, with an average of 53,577 and 51,3 О8 in a single hall. The results of “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” were 41,450 and 34,7⑨8, but it was rotten tomatoes On the beautiful evaluation of 90% / 85% / 86%, the word of mouth has not spread, has not formed influence, and has not increased the publicity. In the third week, it quickly increased to 2503 (+2496). It reaches 3,436, which is typical of pulling seedlings.

The ninth “Motorcycle Diary” (2004-9-24) at the 16.78 million box office was screened for 21 weeks, and the widest screening was only 272 theaters (week 11); “Beautiful Life” was 35 weeks and the widest 1136 (25th) Week); and Miramax released “Heroes” (August 27, 2004) in the first week, there were 2031 theaters, with an average of 11,680 single theaters, because this is a late release, it has already hit the Golden Ball before this The award, Oscar’s best foreign language film, has a certain reputation.

Today, “Kung Fu” is also impacting the award season, and has been shortlisted for the best foreign language film in the Golden Globe Awards. However, from the perspective of its advertising volume and other publicity, Sony / Colombia has no intention of screaming for it, especially Stephen- Zhou’s new film “Green Hornet” belongs to FF, and even if he gets the trophy, it is just a wedding dress. If it is propagated by FF, it will undoubtedly make a lot of money and help it play its best potential to compete for the best foreign language film.

It’s a pity that this can only be a pity. Sony / Colombia is not nervous at all. It is impossible for Flame to point the finger, and think about how to do “Green Hornet”.

Of course, “Kung Fu” still has a chance to win the Golden Globe Award. Although Wang Yiyang knew in advance that it lost to Palestine at this time, who knows if there will be any changes?

In addition to “Green Hornet”, other projects of the Flame movie are also advancing on their own tracks. The director of “Emperor Penguin Diary” Luc-Jacques agreed to take over the directed microphone of “The Story of Hachiko”. Robert Scully (“The Lion King 2”, “Superman College”, etc.) worked together to adapt the script. With the assistance of the producers Todd-Rebman and Robert Scully, Luc- The shortcomings of Jacques were compensated, but the advantages were not lost. FF does not doubt that “” can become a touching film with a high reputation.

After many months, “Marley and Me” was written by two screenwriters, Scott Frank and Don Rose, and the producer Gil Nette invited David Francor (” Love Rhapsody, 6 episodes of “Lust in the City”, 2 episodes of “Brotherhood”, etc.) Picking up the microphone, currently in the casting and preparation stage.

Although these two dog films are scheduled to be released in 2007, because they are not special-effect blockbusters, it does not require much post-production time, and if the fault is declared, it will have many adverse effects, so both projects Do n’t worry, give the crew ’s creators enough time to prepare; despite the interest in the script story, the two directors still need to spend time to find a sense of direction and work with the staff of each department. This process may be four months, possibly six months, Suddenly one day, he withdrew from the crew due to contradictions.

“Tales of Hachiko” is scheduled to start shooting in the fourth quarter of the end of the year; “Mali and Me” will probably not start shooting until the first quarter of next year.

“Assassin League 2”, which will be released at the end of next summer’s summer season, will no longer be directed by Wu Yusen. This is indeed a “peaceful breakup”. Wu Yusen’s emotions and ideas are all placed in “Assassin League”. It ’s like the person who has been holding for a long time finally expresses a sigh of relief, but once he relaxes, he can no longer mention the impulse. So short time let him shoot the second film. If the flame film is not optimistic, it can “double box office word of mouth.” At the same time, according to market surveys, viewers hope to get some new stimuli.

On the other side, Wu Yusen re-proved that his “King of the Gun King” was not worthy of fame. He no longer needs to prove anything. After seeing the warmth in Hollywood, he wholeheartedly wanted to return to Asia, uniting China and other public administrations. I made a Chinese-language movie, the historical war film “Chibi” with the story of the battle of Chibi in the Three Kingdoms period.

Therefore, although the two sides broke up but were happy, the Flame Movie has sent an invitation to direct 44-year-old “Russian Wu Yusen” Timo Beckman Betov and received a YES response; in addition, the sequel script by Chris Morgan will continue Completion, and then the recall of the original team, preparation … “Assassin League 2” is expected to start shooting in the third quarter of this year at the earliest, but also in the fourth quarter at the latest, otherwise it will be too bad if you can’t catch up with the release date.

As for whether to participate in the investment of “Red Cliff” and act as its North American distributor, the Flame Film Production Department believes that it is still to be discussed.

“Iron Man” and “I’m Biography” seem to be a lot more busy, with a consistent “magic style”. Jon Feiru has completed his vacation and has invested in the work of the crew. The screenwriter team led by Mark Fergus and Hawke Ostby also used the framework ideas given by Wang Qiyang to shape characters, write lines, and stories. Details, etc. From October last year to now, the script has been nearly completed, and the starring Robert Downey Jr. and Rachel McAdams are also confirmed. “Iron Man” is expected to be launched in August and will be released at the beginning of the summer vacation in 2007 .

At present, the script of “I Am Biography” has not yet been handed over to the various departments of the crew, and even the crew has not been well established, but Wang Yiyang’s production preparation has always been very smooth, and “I Am Biography” is different from the other. “Firefly” is so huge, it has only one starring role, and there is no need for martial arts training, etc. Wang Qiyang’s plan is to start construction in February. It is expected to start shooting again after 5-7 months, and it will be released in the middle of the summer vacation in 2007.

In addition, the progress of the production of “Mamma Mia”, “Fatal Magic” and other films are in line with expectations; “The Chainsaw 4” has entered the preparatory stage, FF decided to launch the 27-year-old newcomer Darren-Lynn-Bowsman Directed and screenwriter, he is the director of the Lion Gate version of “SAW” 2, 3, 4. Bosman’s insight and enthusiasm for “SAW” are enough to support him to create a piece after the story of the first trilogy. Good sequel, unfolding new horror.

Nancy Reno will also be the producer and associate director of “SAW4”. As early as “SAW1”, she did some assistant work with the crew. Last year’s “500 days with Shamo” ‘s outstanding performance It is also a good reason for her to be trusted. So when she showed great interest in “SAW4”, FF Production Department and Wang Qiyang agreed without much consideration. If she has excellent results this time and Bowesman lacks energy, the director microphone of “SAW5” will Give priority to her, FF’s third female director.

Just compared to the youth, singing and dancing, comedy of Sarah Sugarman and Anne Fletcher … Nancy Reno filmed an R-rated **** horror movie? It seems very weird, even more weird than the old man of jigsaw, especially she is so beautiful, the first impression is a woman who faints when she sees blood, and screams when she sees a ghost, and then is stubborn and confident.

Who sees ghosts not screaming? Maybe only James Wen is gone. Although I knew that this school girl or school girl is very personal, Wang Yangyang was surprised: “This is not” SEW “(sewing, needlework), it is” SAW “, have you seen it? Are you sure? Negative saws … “Nancy is quite disdainful:” In the past few years, I have thought of a lot of interesting killing games, each of which is more horrible than the small one, and some of them use SEW, Do you want to listen? “

“Okay, just appreciate your character!” What can Wang Jiyang say, is she not interested in youth campuses, romantic comedies or anything? Nancy said frankly: “You know my idol is you, yes, I want to follow your steps to debut in a horror movie, anyway, I am really interested, and I will talk about it later.”

It was Mark Srant who did not forget the agent ’s set. He thought that FF could join Nancy ’s agent and agent, and work together to make her an “idolist director”, which is both talented and sexual. Hot and beautiful female director! Easy Sofia Coppola, Judy Foster, Miranda Joule … From the previous day because of the Rose Bowl game, she followed Wang Yiyang many times on the national live broadcast channel, and then many people on the Internet asked ” Who is that woman? “,” The one wearing the ball cap next to Magic Young! “,” Have she played any movies? “I know, absolutely rk!

If you want to take this development route, she can’t touch the terrible things like “SAW”, romantic things like “Dancing My Life” series, “Twilight” and so on are suitable for her, men, women and children! Flame film is another shiny director’s signboard. And now that “Twilight” is more and more popular, it has consecutively won the best-selling list of the “New York Times” for many weeks, and has become a super best-selling book, “Idol School Director” + “Idol School Starring” , A wonderful publicity stunt.

“I’m going to be a director, not the cover girl of” Hua Hua Hua Gong Gong Zi “, otherwise what do I want to do at NGC? In order to be a cover girl with a high degree of education?” She vetoed mercilessly, and she was very angry because she did not like others to link her appearance and talents together.

Wang Qiyang remembered that he said “I am not going to be a star” at the beginning. Today, his popularity is not lost to any star, although he still doesn’t think he is a star, but as the saying goes, “an animal grows What does it look like, what does it sound like, what does it walk like, then what is it? “From the outside world, he is no different from a star, only he knows whether it is not, making movies, participating in publicity, participating in the award season, and then? No more.

Many things can’t help but develop. When Nancy started to take the director’s microphone on her own, how could the whole film proclaim that she was not there from beginning to end? Take a few interviews naturally and take a few sets of photos of ordinary entertainment and fashion magazines, plus as long as there is attention, the media and paparazzi will stare at her. When the movie is successful, even if Nancy does not want to When “Idol School Director” will gradually become yes, “Beautiful Director” may be her nickname.

“What do you think? I didn’t lie to you.” Wang Yiyang told her all the years of experience of the people who came over, and said: “In fact, it’s nothing. The most important thing is to maintain your mentality. Don’t know what you are doing in those flashy flashes Anything is fine. “Nancy did it when she heard it, and she was very annoyed:” Now I am a little envious of Harry George! “She was also very troubled at the same time:” No ~ www.mtlnovel.com ~ the beautiful director ‘ Silly, ‘Director Hot’, ‘Director Sexual’ … I don’t want to! I thought, I’m going to give myself a nickname first, uh, uh, what’s your opinion? “

Wang Jiyang couldn’t help but sigh: “Sure enough it’s still a girl.” In the phone conversation, Nancy suddenly laughed: “We talk about these too early? Laughing dead! It seems like I’m going to take the Golden Globe Red Carpet. Who? “Wang Jiyang said:” Muscle Director. “

The two first met in Park City, where Sundance Film Festival is held. They were both 6 years ago in 2000. This year the Sundance Film Festival will open on the 19th, and the Flame Film Purchase Department and Distribution Department are gaining momentum. Waiting for the release, I hope to have any major gains, such as the film that can be the main impact of the next award season, but everyone knows that such a film is unprecedented, not every year, “Crash”, Not every “crash” can be easily recognized.

Prior to this, the 63rd Golden Globe Awards Ceremony held on the evening of the 16th arrived earlier.

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