Director’s Legend

From May 18th to 20th, it was the third weekend of "The Avengers" in North America, ushered in a big challenge, and "Super Battleship", which was making waves overseas, was released in North America. All Summit Entertainment's competitors placed their hopes on "Super Battleship" to be able to KO "The Avengers", so that the "Women" Federation would stop being so arrogant.

However, the ending is tragic.

"Super Battleship" hit the rocks and sank before North America, and only received 25.3 million US dollars, ranking second.

At the top of the list is "The Avengers", which won the three consecutive championships, and won a fierce momentum of 60.05 million U.S. dollars. The total box office in North America was 476.5 million U.S. dollars. It still has a dominant position in North America, and overseas, the "Women's" Federation has also achieved three consecutive championships and four consecutive championships. No one can win the title of "Women's" Federation.

So far, the global box office totaled 128.5 billion U.S. dollars

From May 25th to 27th, "The Avengers" finally gave up the North American title and stopped three consecutive championships. With 40.2 million U.S. dollars, second to "Men in Black 3" with 55 million U.S. dollars, it ranked second. However, with strong word-of-mouth support, the downward trend of the box office is not high. The total box office in North America has reached 53.2 billion US dollars, and it is about to surpass "Batman: The Dark Knight" to become the top three in North America.

It earned US$34 million overseas, with a total global box office of US$137.9 billion, surpassing the US$132.8 billion of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part 2)", becoming the third highest box office in global film history.

The strong attack of the Women's Federation has made Shao Shuaijun more and more famous. Now no one doubts that Shao Shuaijun is not as good a commercial director as Cameron. Cameron has been tinkering with for twenty or thirty years, only tinkering with a few movies. In less than ten years, Shao Shuaijun has worked on more than a dozen films. Judging from the combination of quality and quantity, when it comes to commercial achievements, the two are evenly matched.

"Shao's 'excellence'. Amazing, he is a young man full of magic, I am looking forward to the four magic series he is working on, and I am also looking forward to being a part of it. With a man who has the same as myself It’s a wonderful thing to work with technically-loving directors.”[

When Cameron was interviewed by reporters, he praised Shao Shuaijun. It also introduced the four major magic series to the world: "I talked a lot with Shao at the Beijing Film Festival. We are both full of curiosity and desire for new film technologies. I have spent many years of immersion and studied 3 technologies. Now we It is agreed that extended technology such as 5 will be a new movie experience. The four major magic series will use these new technologies. At present, the two most outstanding young people in Hollywood, Nolan is too addicted to old-fashioned movie technology, and opposes 3 and digital , This is also the reason why I don't like Nolan, but I like Shao Shuaijun, the director must try all kinds of possibilities, and can't limit himself."

Cameron just finished talking about the four major fantasy series. Shao Shuaijun sent an invitation to Cameron, inviting him to direct a film in the series of Immortals, Buddhas, Gods and Demons, and serve as the producer of the series.

"James, the tentative name of this story is "Monkey King: Havoc in Heaven". It is based on the stories in the four famous Chinese novels "Journey to the West". The script is very interesting and very simple and straightforward. s story."

"Let me be the producer of this series, have you considered it carefully? I don't know much about Chinese myths and legends."

"It doesn't matter, the scripts are all the best. We need your experience to guide us. It is better to break through the shackles of Chinese films and keep pace with the world."

"But I need to direct "Avatar 2" now."

"We can wait for the directing. The four major magic series do not need to be launched at the same time. I am currently working on the ancient legend series. With an experimental nature, I will launch a few small-scale films. I hope you can come and be the director. The producer of the movie "Yellow Emperor: The Battle for the Deer" directed by me, just take the time to come and give me some guidance."

"I think I say yes."

"Great, then it's settled."

Convincing James Cameron to be the producer of the four major fantasy series was planned by Shao Shuaijun a long time ago. Cameron does not make many films, but in the commercial field, Cameron is definitely the one with the most vision and the most One who strives for excellence. "Terminator", "Alien", "Titanic", and "Avatar" are not movies that have influenced Hollywood for many years. With Cameron at the helm of the four major fantasy series, Shao Shuaijun can draw this blueprint with more confidence.

From the global boom of superheroes, from the hot sales of "Harry Potter", "Twilight", "Lord of the Rings", "Pirates of the Caribbean" and other series of movies. It can be seen that as the special effects become more and more excellent, the audience of magic series movies is getting wider and wider, and the younger generation who have become the main force at the box office are becoming more and more adapted to this kind of magic movies.

If it is built well, the four major magic series will never lose to the Marvel Cinematic Universe trio. Movies adapted from Marvel comics do have the bonus of being a fan of comics, but people who have never read Marvel comics still enjoy watching them. This is the charm of magical colors.

In the past, the only way to watch a movie was to go to the cinema to watch it. Therefore, those romantic movies with good reputation can still get incredible box office. Now that the Internet is developed, watching a romance movie can be watched on the computer, there is no need to go to the cinema, and it is particularly difficult for a romance movie to get a miracle box office.

Magic and sci-fi movies are different. For these kinds of movies, the visual special effects have a huge bonus. There is a huge difference between going to the cinema and not going to the cinema. In the future, only magic and sci-fi movies will create miracles at the box office. Looking at the new century, among the movies that have achieved a good box office, which one is not a blockbuster with visual effects?

In the 21st century, only "Avatar", "Avengers", "Batman: The Dark Knight", "Shrek 2" and "Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Treasure" are among the top ten box office films in North America. Except for one cartoon, they are all visual effects blockbusters. [

Even the top 100 movies are basically monopolized by visual effects blockbusters.

This is the status quo of film development, and only by following the trend can we ride the tide at sea.

It's hard to say that the Chinese-language film couldn't make it out because the visual effects were too sloppy.

Foreigners don't understand the stories told by the Chinese, and they don't even have to watch the scenes. Of course they don't like Chinese movies, Chinese movies.

If the four major fantasy series want to rush out, they must first work hard on the hardware. In this regard, James Cameron is the absolute authority.

Time flies, and the call for the first phase of scripts has ended. Shao Shuaijun and the screenwriting team of Golden Harvest Entertainment have selected hundreds of excellent scripts, as well as thousands of excellent outlines and ideas. After systematic induction and reshaping, the general plot framework of the four major magic series has finally been worked out.

The rest is to refine the script, and then prepare for the project.

On June 2, 2012, a grand meeting was held at Golden Harvest Entertainment Base in Beijing.

The host of the meeting was Yi Jianmei, and besides several executives from Golden Harvest Entertainment and Summit Entertainment, many directors and screenwriters attended the meeting. Mainland directors include Shao Shuaijun, Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Gao Zhisheng, Wu Ershan, Li Fangfang, Ning Hao, Wang Yixue, Jiang Zhigang, Yang Ying, etc. Hong Kong directors include Zhou Xingxing, Xu Ke, Chen Jiashang, Cheng Xiaodong, Ye Weixing, Liu Zhenwei, etc. At present, there is only Li An as the director of the island, and there are two foreign Chinese directors, Huang Yiyu and Wen Ziren.

Basically, the main force of Chinese directors is here.

This meeting is to discuss the film production of the four major magic series. The ability to invite so many directors is all due to the reputation of Shao Shuaijun and Golden Harvest Entertainment.

"Magic movies are the main force of commercial movies in the future. When I planned the four major magical series, it was also based on the idea of ​​changing Chinese films from a commercial point of view. Of course, the four major magical series are not only ancient legends, gods, Buddhas, immortals, The Hundred Schools of Philosophy, Biographies of Assassins, can also independently start a series of Emperor Benji, a series of Strange Tales from a Liaozhai Studio, or even a new magic series that has no basis in legends."

Shao Shuaijun looked at the notes in his hand and said relaxedly: "At present, we have received a lot of scripts, all of which are very good. We have already sorted out the plot framework of this series. Everyone has got the plot framework description. The story of the plot, after the script review, has commercial prospects, can be used for filming. Being able to sit here shows that we are interested in the four major magic series. I also sincerely invite everyone to join this project.”

Yi Jianmei took over the topic: "The four major magic series have been identified by Golden Harvest Entertainment and Summit Entertainment as plans with good commercial prospects, and will be included in the company's future decisions. In fact, as early as when 2 and LM were acquired, Director Shao With this kind of thinking, magic movies will be the mainstream movies in the future. We have a world-class special effects company, a world-class screenwriting team, and a world-class distribution company. This will be a big event for the rise of Chinese-language movies. I I also look forward to joining you.”

The secretary of the meeting and a new female director, Yang Ying, then read the report: "At present, the four major fantasy series have confirmed the approval of six films."

"There are two ancient legends series, "Yellow Emperor: The Battle for the Deer" directed by Director Shao, "Cangjie: Lord of Civilization" directed by Gao Zhisheng; three works in the series of gods, demons, immortals and Buddhas, "Sun Wukong: Havoc" directed by James Cameron "Heavenly Palace", "Eight Immortals: Supernatural Powers" directed by Wu Ershan, "Legend of the White Snake: The Legend of the Green Snake" directed by Chen Jiashang; "Mozi: Love and Non-Gong" directed by Xu Ke ; A series of assassin biographies, directed by Li Fangfang, "Jing Ke: Assassination of Qin with Fish Guts."

"In addition, there are two TV dramas ready to be approved, one is "Yan Luo Tianzi" directed by Wang Yixue, and the other is "Jade Emperor" directed by Jiang Zhigang."

"These six films and two TV series are the first phase of the production plan of the four major magic series. Sino-US joint venture, all produced with the specifications of blockbuster special effects, and Summit Entertainment is in charge of global broadcasting. Golden Harvest Entertainment's script library has several good scripts. , if any director wants to participate in the plan, he can choose the script, or bring his own script, let us create the most fantastic epic film project together!"

Shao Shuaijun said with a smile. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point to vote and monthly pass. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile phone users, please go to m to read.)

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