Director’s Legend

Shao Shuaijun and Li An are also old acquaintances. They met each other as early as the Golden Horse Awards in 2004. Afterwards, they were all filming in Hollywood, and they often met. Although they didn't have close friendships, they were still half friends. Li An's youngest son also appeared in Shao Shuaijun's "Teddy Bear", playing the role of the Vietnamese Ho Chi Minh.

"I went to see "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" last night. It's a wonderful movie." Li Yu said, drinking tea, "Now that Wu Yusen has returned to the mainland to make a movie, Hollywood is left with you and me to support it. It’s almost extinct, it’s not easy.”

"Yeah, domestic directors are still unable to go out, this is a problem."

"It's not just that directors can't go out, and the film industry can't go out. It would be great if everyone could be like you, eating both East and West. Recently, my son is obsessed with your song, every day 'I ca -style.

"It's good to be popular, but if you don't win the award, you are now the best director of the Oscar. Sitting in front of you, you feel a head short." Shao Shuaijun shook his head.

He has made movies for many years, and the box office is estimated to have exceeded 2 billion US dollars, but the number of awards is really very few. Except for a Saturn Award for Best Director, he didn't get any bullshit.

"If you don't make art films, it is of course difficult to win awards. "Avatar" ranked first in the box office in the world, and it also took 1.05 billion yuan in the mainland, squeezing your "Old Boy". As a result, the Oscars still only You can get some technical awards. You also have to try more art films. Are you not tired of always making commercial films?"

"If you watch me make movies one after another, you will know how good I am making commercial movies. By the way, we have been talking for a long time, and we haven't asked you what you want from me?"

"I can't ask you to have dinner if I have nothing to do? Do rich people look down on us ordinary people?" Li An said sourly. Compared with Shao Shuaijun, he is also a Chinese director of the Three Musketeers. I haven't taken it much. With Shao Shuaijun, he is a complete poor man.

"Yes. Didn't I always invite you to drink tea? If you don't go to the Three Treasures Hall if you have nothing to do, you must have something to do."

Li Yu cleared his throat: "That's right, this year's Golden Horse Awards, I am going to invite you to participate. I also know that you have been a little misunderstanding with the Golden Horse Awards. This time I am the judge of the Golden Horse Awards. I also hold the filmmakers who can make the two sides of the strait and the three places come together. Unite and invigorate the Chinese film circle. You are the leader of mainland directors, you have to play a leading role. In recent years, under your influence, many mainland filmmakers have refused to participate in the Golden Horse Awards, and the trouble will continue We Chinese are in a state of disunity again."

Shao Shuaijun smiled awkwardly: "It really doesn't affect me. I forgot about "The Night Watchman" at that time. Over the past few years, Hollywood movies have been filmed one after another, and I rarely pay attention to Chinese film awards. However, what you said It does make sense, the three places should work together.”

Li An is a director who sincerely cares about Chinese-language films, and Shao Shuaijun also hopes that Chinese-language films can rise. The wishes of both parties are common, and a lot has been decided after chatting.

Shao Shuaijun will participate in the Golden Horse Awards this time, and Golden Harvest will also encourage its directors and actors to participate in the Golden Horse Awards. And at the beginning of next year, we will strive to hold a director exchange meeting between the three places on both sides of the Taiwan Strait to jointly promote the development of Chinese-language films. With Li An promoting in Taiwan, Shao Shuaijun promoting in the mainland, and directors such as Chen Jiashang promoting in Hong Kong, this meeting must make some changes that can be seen immediately.

After talking about the Chinese movie, Shao Shuaijun suddenly said: "By the way, I bought a book before, "The Fantasy Drifting of Boy Pi". This book is very popular, but many people say that it cannot be adapted into a movie. I think there is a lot to do. You happen to have nothing to do recently, why don't I invite you to direct, as the first move to promote communication between directors?"

""The Fantasy Drifting of Boy Pi"?"

"Yeah, I've wanted to adapt this book for a long time, but I don't think I can grasp some of the content now. I don't have a deep study of literary films. It is undoubtedly a pity if it only has a commercial taste. Are you Among the Chinese directors, literary films are the most particular, are you interested? I plan to make this book the highlight of Chasing Dream Entertainment, let Chasing Dream Golden Harvest, Summit Entertainment and Chasing Dream South Asia jointly invest, as an exchange in the world film circle. "Shao Shuaijun outlined the blueprint.

China, India, and the United States are definitely the three sacred places for future world movies.

Needless to say, the United States is now the center of world cinema. China, with a population of 1.4 billion, has no reason why it cannot develop into a film center. India is an unknown, but film is India's pillar industry, and India has been trying to surpass China in terms of population. It is definitely a country with potential stocks.

As a company that aspires to become an entertainment giant, Chasing Dream Entertainment must expand its own industrial scale. The advantage of Chasing Dream Entertainment is that it spans three countries and can effectively integrate the markets of the three places. "The Fantasy Drifting of Boy Pi" can be regarded as an attempt of integration, Chinese director, American production, Indian shooting, perfect cooperation method.

The plan was very tempting. Li An didn't refuse or agree immediately. He wanted to go back and think about it. It is agreed that we will give an answer when we meet at the Golden Horse Awards.

After drinking tea, Shao Shuaijun invited Li An to his house as a guest. Li An was in a hurry to promote exchanges between directors from the three places and had no time. So they dispersed, Shao Shuaijun paid the bill, and went straight home to accompany his wife to look forward to the child.

On August 9th, the three-day weekend of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" has ended, and the box office from all over the world has been aggregated to Summit Entertainment.

This weekend's North American box office list, as predicted by the media, no one can stop the pace of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes". Except for "Secondary Detective", which is a new release, there is no new movie. Therefore, on the first weekend of August, "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" swept the box office with $86.75 million.

This achievement greatly exceeds the $50 million achievement predicted by experts, as a remake film. The results are really against the sky.

In China, "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" is also unstoppable. The movie originally scheduled for August has been moved forward or postponed because of the schedule of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes". Therefore, after Friday, Saturday, and seven or three days later, "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" won 140.2 million yuan, with an astonishing momentum.

All over the world, they have handed over their answers with strong opening results. Especially in Japan, "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" reached the top with 1.1 billion yen in three days. Let the Japanese media exclaimed. Because this is Shao Shuaijun's movie. The twenty-fifth box office weekly champion in Japan.

"33 Days of Broken Relationship" 2 times, "Source Code" 2 times, "Painted Skin" 4 times, "Inception" 4 times, "500 Days with Summer" 2 times, "Heartbeat" 1 time, "Old Man" Boy" 3 times and "Teddy Bear" 4 times.

"Shao Shuaijun has surpassed Cheng Long and has become the most successful Chinese-language filmmaker at the box office in Japan." - "Asahi Shimbun".

After winning the championship in many places, the global results of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" have also been added up, with a total box office of 210 million US dollars. Handed over the perfect answer sheet.

"Shao Shuaijun is the most successful commercial director in Hollywood. His success lies in that. He always succeeds!" - Variety.

"Shao Shuaijun is an unavoidable director in the history of film. You know, we have become accustomed to ignoring his age. It is often mentioned that he is only 24 years old this year, which will make many directors feel depressed! At his age, Cameron Before hugging his ex-wife's thigh (the first movie "Terminator" was invested by his ex-wife), Spielberg has played movies, but he didn't play any tricks, and he couldn't even pass the school. Shao's future is Brilliant and definitely has a chance to surpass what Cameron and Spielberg have accomplished in business!" - Faces.

Amidst the uproar, from August 13th to 15th, another weekend passed. This week, "The Hunger Games" sold out with a total box office of 650 million US dollars worldwide, earning enough box office. "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn (Part 1)" has also accumulated a box office of 640 million U.S. dollars, and it is still in theaters around the world. With this momentum, it seems that the global box office breaking through 700 million is not a problem.

And this week Hollywood has two new films released on a large scale, Sony's "Be a Girl Forever" and Universal's "Crooked Boy Scott", together with "Secondary Detective", which performed well last week, together encircled and suppressed "Gorilla". Ball Rising". After three days of war without gunpowder, the results were announced.

"Despicable Me" produced by Universal, even though it has been released for 6 weeks, still scored 6.76 million US dollars, ranking fifth. North America has accumulated 220 million US dollars so far. The producer has released news, "Despicable Me" I 2" started production.

"Crooked Scott", also produced by Universal, was not so lucky. It ranked fourth with 8.79 million US dollars, which was seriously inconsistent with Universal's expectations. In addition, the entire army was wiped out, and the position of the Sixth National Congress was in jeopardy.

Sony's "British Cop" and "Forever a Girl" are not bad, ranking third and second with $11 million and $18 million, respectively.

However, "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" is still at the top of the list. It made persistent efforts in three days this weekend and achieved a super result of 75.6 million US dollars. While the total box office in North America has accumulated to 200 million US dollars, in mainland China, "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" once again won the weekly championship with 125.6 million yuan, with a total box office of 265.8 million yuan.

In Japan, the trend of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" is even higher, with 1.6 billion yen to achieve consecutive wins. This is also Shao Shuaijun's 26th championship title in Japan. The global box office is gratifying, and the total box office has reached a height of 405 million US dollars.

"As Hollywood creatively depletes, 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes' raises the collective IQ of this year's summer movie slate, and a shift in collective thinking." —The Wall Street Journal.

"Planet of the Apes does well, but the performance of the human figure is disappointing, and the film ditches the sociopolitics of its original subject and replaces it with a reminder of the evils of human experimentation." — NPR ( U.S).

"Rise of the Planet of the Apes, as its title suggests, is a B-movie that surpasses expectations as apes rise up to find their dignity at the hands of humans." - The New York Post.

Mtime.com scored 8.5, imdb 8.7, Rotten Tomatoes 86% freshness, Mtime.com movie reviews 89% freshness, yahoo movie critics a-review, audience a-rating. Word-of-mouth and box office are all booming, just like "Inception" back then, everyone is paying attention to how far "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" will go. (to be continued..)