Director’s Legend

The final version of "Painted Skin" requires 120 minutes. For Shao Shuaijun, this is undoubtedly a difficult task. If possible, he does not want to cut a minute. A really good movie cannot be limited by time. But if he doesn't cut it, several investors will definitely have to replace it.

Fortunately, the post-production special effects shots of "Painted Skin" have not yet been completed, and Shao Shuaijun has enough time to think about how to delete shots.

The time was spent bit by bit correcting the footage of "Painted Skin" and modifying the script of "Twilight Saga: Twilight" bit by bit. "Painted Skin" has already received a reply from Miramax Films, and it will be released simultaneously in Asia and North America, instead of being released after a period of time.

Shao Shuaijun didn't know exactly how it was arranged. Now he felt suddenly relaxed again.

The procedures for applying to open a film company in the United States were too complicated. For a period of time, the U.S. Immigration Service came to ask Shao Shuaijun every day if he had any intention of immigrating. I have to say that Americans think too highly of themselves. Anyone who comes to the United States to work or study will suspect that you come here with the intention of immigrating to the United States.

Once it is confirmed that you are inclined to immigrate, you will immediately turn your face and refuse to give you the opportunity to work in the United States.

At the end of the quarrel, Shao Shuaijun and Li Xiuxiu had given up their idea of ​​starting a company in the United States, and planned to acquire a small film company in the name of Chasing Dream Entertainment. With the help of Rob, they took a fancy to a film company also opened in Santa Monica, Summit Entertainment.

Shao Shuaijun is very familiar with this film company. Before his rebirth, he happened to be promoting "You Now You See Me" in China. And "Now You See Me" was filmed by this company. What's interesting is that without Shao Shuaijun's interference, Summit Entertainment would be the company that runs the "Twilight Saga" series of films.

But unfortunately, now with Shao Shuaijun, everything will change.

The current summit entertainment company is shabby enough. The office is not far from Lionsgate, but the area is ten times smaller. Although it was established in 1998, it has only released four films in nearly 8 years. Surprisingly low yield. But if you think. The company is unknown, and that would be wrong.

Its reputation is not bad, and three of the four films are famous all over the world, "Two Smoking Barrels", "Vanilla Sky" and "Operation Smith". "Two Smoking Barrels" needn't go into too much detail. This is Guy Ritchie's masterpiece. It is also the ancestor of the movie style of "Crazy Stone".

"Operation Smith" is also familiar to many people. In recent years, Brad Pitt, the hottest niche in Hollywood, and Angelina Jolie, who was voted No. 1 among the top 100 sexy women by FHM magazine in 2005, are dedicated to creating. Hot all over the world.

The most representative one is "Vanilla Sky". Once it was released in 2001, it became the king of Hollywood topics that year. It is one of Cruise's masterpieces and has won numerous awards.

So, Peak Entertainment still has some reputation. But this will not cause too much difficulty for the acquisition. As an independent film company, the development of Summit Entertainment is not smooth. The quality of movies is important, but what really affects the development of the company is the number of movies.

Summit Entertainment's production capacity is too weak. Even if there are four movies in eight years, even if the response is good, it can't change the tightness of the company's capital chain. In another trajectory, it can also use the cash cow of "Twilight" to grow stronger, but in this trajectory, Shao Shuaijun is coming, and it is destined to be swallowed.

The owner of Summit Entertainment, Mitchell Bruce, does not reject being acquired, but it will take a long time to haggle over the price of the acquisition and whether there will be a place for him in the new company in the future.

As a result, Shao Shuaijun was temporarily unable to make new movies.

I had no choice but to compete with "Painted Skin".

Time slipped by quietly, and half of April passed in a blink of an eye. On this day, the digital field finally completed the production of the last set of special effects shots of "Painted Skin". Shao Shuaijun got the part he was most looking forward to, and finally he was able to finish the editing quietly. This is a meticulous job for the director.

Just when he was immersed in the film and was about to finish editing.

A video began to circulate on domestic websites, and it surpassed one million hits in just one day...

Bang bang bang!

The door of the editing room of Lionsgate Pictures was knocked loudly, and Wang Zhonglei's voice came quickly: "Junzi, open the door quickly! Something happened!"

"What's up?"

Shao Shuaijun had stubble on his face and messy hair. In order to find inspiration for editing, he even gave up taking care of himself.

"Painted Skin has been stolen!"

"What!"

Without further ado, Wang Zhonglei took Shao Shuaijun to the computer, entered the domestic URL, and a video website appeared, with a shiny title "Painted Skin Lite", and after buffering, the video began to play. The more you look at Shao Shuaijun's face, the uglier it gets. This so-called simplified version is not a movie.

Rather, it is a hodgepodge of various shots of "Painted Skin", only 35 minutes of footage, after editing, it seems that the plot of the entire movie can also be seen. These shots are filmed shots without special effects, but there are rough shots to be added with special effects.

For example, in the scene of the battle between monsters and monsters, because special effects were used for synthesis, the actors did not wear makeup, and the scene looked messy and noisy.

And there are also some behind-the-scenes tidbits. Due to the shooting angle, a lot of goofy shots were added. I don’t know if it’s the pixel problem of the website video or what is the reason. The whole video looks shoddy, and it doesn’t matter at all The so-called high-definition picture quality and majestic atmosphere of "Painted Skin".

"Was it spread?" Shao Shuaijun frowned and asked.

"It's already reached 1.5 million hits just now, don't watch it, go to the meeting quickly."

Entering the meeting room, the inside was filled with smoke, and the representatives of various companies were all lighting up their cigarettes and arguing chaotically.

"Okay, stop arguing, Lao Yang, and talk about the news from China."

Yang Hongtao blushed: "The situation has been confirmed, it must have been done by insiders. Most of the thirty-five-minute shots are rough cuts, which should have been stolen before coming to the United States. There is no mark on the screen, So it is not a problem caused by post-production, that is to say, what happened half a year ago, if we have to investigate now, it is difficult to find out who did it."

Shao Shuaijun asked with a sullen face: "Then, how should we deal with it now? The release of this kind of film must have a huge impact on "Painted Skin". Halfway through, I found that the camera almost runs through all the plots of "Painted Skin". Without gimmicks and no sense of expectation, "Painted Skin" will grab the box office!"

The smoke was lingering, and everyone looked dignified. (To be continued..)