Hollywood Hunter

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

Again, I answered some doubts caused by Ren Jingxi’s advice from Simon last week. Others are mainly the specific projects that Jinshu will try next. Four films are preliminarily determined, which is a lot more than the previous discussions of the Jinshu Department. Moreover, it basically revolves around the suggestion in Simon's email. This time, all the specific films including the name have been finalized.

The first one is Di Renjie's God Capital Dragon King.

That's right, it's the one directed by Mr. Xu, and this time he plans to invite Mr. Xu to direct.

Lao Xu tried to follow the big trend to enter Hollywood two years ago, but unfortunately failed, and now he has returned to Hong Kong. Coupled with the trough of Hong Kong movies in recent years, there will not be too many obstacles for the two parties to start cooperation. With the accommodating of the filmmakers, this time Jin Shu can still hold a considerable amount of initiative.

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

Old Monster Xu is suitable for this movie, and he can also make a masterpiece, but if he messes up, it can also cause people to suffer from nosebleeds. Just like in the past, the old monster has two Shushan movies before and after, which can be called obsession, but unfortunately they failed . So much so that Simon had an idea about Shushan before, but he never had the intention of implementing it.

In short, this time, Simon's expectation is that he can reach the previous level and not seek a breakthrough, but he can't make a mess.

The second is Detective Chinatown.

In fact, a film similar to the overseas detective mode appeared in the original time and space at about this time, and it was quite famous, that is, Tokyo Raiders starring Tony Leung, followed by Hancheng Raiders and European Raiders after many years.

At least the first film should not have lost commercially, otherwise there would be no second two films.

Of course, the Raiders series and the Detective series are only similar in format, and the plot structure and character settings are quite different. It can only be said that the creativity of the film and television industry has never been completely new. The key is to see if you can put new wine in old bottles do it well.

Therefore, compared with Di Renjie's God Dragon King who has a clear mind, Simon has to hesitate a lot when it comes to investigating cases in Chinatown.

The main reason is that the story of the Dragon King of Shendu does not have high requirements for the leading role. The core is still the wild imagination of Mr. Xu. It is very easy to find a suitable leading role to support the project. As for Detective Chinatown, the former couple, the nephew is easy to talk about, and it is easy to find a suitable niche, but the uncle, um, even if it is a good-looking one, it is not easy to fit in.

In addition, there is also a director, and Simon has no clue for a while.

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

I can only make the script first, and slowly ponder the rest.

The third project, painted skin.

This former director directly passed the first film, and the main creator immediately confirmed that there was a Mongolian director with a black prefix. The box office gap between the two painted skins was once more than 200 million for the former, while the latter directly increased the box office by 3 times, reaching 7. Even with the rapid growth of the Chinese film market, it can be seen that Mongolian directors are capable of commercial films.

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 the crew of the Lord of the Rings trilogy that Daenerys was very fancy about.

At present, the other party is producing a low-cost martial arts, which can be regarded as the result of Simon's quiet arrangement, because the other party started a low-cost martial arts called Dao Jianxiao, which cost 6 million and got 20 million at the box office. Although the budget is tight, But also very thoughtful.

This time, it is an original martial arts adaptation project from the butterfly of this time and space, called Tongtianpu. The middlemen came to fight, all kinds of praying mantises caught the cicadas, and the orioles followed.

The story is not too novel, and Simon asked someone to send him the finished sample footage to watch, and the quality is better than the other party's jokes.

So the director of Huapi was directly finalized.

The last one is the main theme of the non-revolutionary theme that Simon talked with Ren Jingxi during the weekend in San Lucas. The names are also in the order of the past. The first one is me and my motherland.

This project still plans to cooperate with China Film Group, mainly considering the appeal of China Film Group, which will allow many actors to come and play for free.

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The schedule will be next year's National Day, and the budget will not be too high compared to the 80 million-level blockbusters planned for the first three films. About 20 to 30 million yuan can be done. It's just that Simon didn't say much about the specific excerpted stories. He is an "outsider", and it would be too weird if he said too much, so he let the Jinshu team select the materials by themselves.

Besides the four items, during the discussion, Simon gave Jinshu another suggestion.

In China, next, a group of movie actors should be specially trained. 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 actor.

In fact, it's roughly like Hollywood.

Film, television, music circles, although Hollywood does not have absolute boundaries, but each circle is still very obvious.

As for the reason, from a business point of view, this actually involves consumption 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 will easily make the audience feel that the movie does not seem to have enough style. Therefore, for many people, Often, after looking at the list of main creators, there is probably no idea of ​​buying a ticket to enter the venue.

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In China, the most typical one was Fan Ye.

Compared with other Chinese actresses, Fatty Fan has starred in quite a few films, but even some well-reviewed ones can hardly leave much influence on the audience. The public remembers each other more, perhaps only on the red carpet, or, The little maid in Zhuli.

why?

The reason is that it was too mixed up, mixing everything, so that there was no clear positioning in the hearts of the public, and some people even felt that Fan Fatty only lived on the red carpet later, and seemed to have lost his film and television works.

Certainly not.

Of course, this method of blooming in all directions can make a lot of money, but from the perspective of a film and television company owner, the huge investment for his own project will not be in vain. It is better to use this kind of artist sparingly.

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

The first is Tianlongbabu.

The edited version of the project is still being worked on, mainly by the team in China. After all, it is cheap, but the subtitles for the full version have been completed.

Simon didn’t intend to dub the full version. After all, it’s a martial arts. It’s just the name Tianlong Babu. In English literal translation, eightfold path of the heavenly dragon (eight fold path of the heavenly dragon), don’t say that foreigners are confused, but Chinese who understand English , look at it again, probably also confused.

There is also a free translation, demi-gods\u0026semi-devils, "half gods, half devils", Simon is actually not satisfied.

A compromise, and finally choose the latter, after all, it is somewhat interesting.

Just a name is already confusing, not to mention the many martial arts moves. Therefore, although China has found a group of very good translators to produce the English version, and also considered a complete dubbed version, Simon did not agree.

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

In short, the subtitles of the full version have been completed, and the broadcast time has been confirmed recently. On September 6th, DHO TV will have a late-night broadcast from 11:00 pm to 1:00 am. , two episodes a day.

Furthermore, there will be no window period this time. After the broadcast of DHO, Blockbuster's DVD will be 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-length TV series with 40 episodes. Even if it's a dvd, it won't be too much.

Then, after the essence version is completed, based on the broadcast and rental data of this time, we will consider whether to give a better schedule and publicity resources, or, if the full version is too poor, it is not impossible to give up directly.

The second is the documentary Mount Everest.

Simon has seen the sample and doesn't intend to modify it, so the next step is to make an imax copy and start publicizing it at the same time.

After winning the Canadian imax company, it has been pushed forward for several years without knowing it. At present, the number of imax screens in the world has reached 322, of which there are 139 in North America. Overseas, China has more screens , there are 34 Jinshu Cinemas, each of which has a standard imax screen, so that is 34 yuan. For other countries, share the remaining 149 yuan in total.

The reason why there are not so many is that the projection halls in western countries, which have already completed extensive theater infrastructure construction, generally cannot accommodate the standard imax size. Daenerys pays for it out of pocket.

In any case, there are more than 300 imax screens around the world, which is actually quite impressive.

Considering that the previous Mount Everest documentary was able to earn more than 80 million US dollars at the box office in North America, Simon was not too stingy this time. In addition to the imax copy cost, he also gave an additional 3 million US dollars in publicity investment, including the production cost , the total cost of the project has exceeded $10 million.

The planned date is September 24. Because imax copies are too expensive, they will only be released in North America first. Overseas will have to wait until the screening potential here is 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 well as it once did, Daenerys will definitely invest in making more copies and spread it around the world as soon as possible.