Chapter 328 August, Leave the Stars
Another movie that has steadily exceeded 100 million yuan and aims at 200 million yuan appeared in the summer season, confirming what many media people said earlier that it would be a big year for movies.
The biggest beneficiary is naturally Xingchen Company.
At present, "Initial D" has been released for a month and the box office is 223 million yuan, which is on par with "20 Again". "20 Again" is about to be released, and "Initial D" will basically be the first.
Whether it can become the first in the annual box office, the media believes that it depends on the performance of "Night Banquet" and "Baby Project" in September, "War of War" in November, "Golden Curse" in December, and "The Bucket List" that Lu Ping'an may be released during the Lunar New Year.
Except for "The Bucket List", all of them are blockbusters.
In general, based on the box office performance of the summer season, the industry is still very optimistic that the films in the second half of the year will achieve good results.
Some people even said that this year is a big year for movies, not just the summer season. The market has exploded, so at least half of the films in the second half of the year will exceed 200 million yuan.
Especially the Lunar New Year's "Curse of the Golden Flower", which is expected to surpass the record of "Wonderful Night 1".
If this is true, then 2006 can be regarded as a year of complete explosion.
The industry is optimistic.
For Lu Pingan and Xingchen, the overall situation is still the same.
The success of "20 Again", "Initial D" and "Painted Skin", and the successful activation of the online ticketing system and Southeast Asian channels, are excellent results, but this is just a summary of the work in the past two years.
There is no need to be particularly happy, because we still have to work hard on the results of the next stage of work.
At present, the top priority for Lu Pingan is "Peak 3".
At present, the filming of "Peak 3" is actually very easy for Lu Pingan.
It is just as expected before taking on this project.
With autonomy, Cheng Long and his Cheng family team have a lot of room to play.
For many fighting scenes, as long as the plot framework and shooting parameters are unified, Cheng Long can play by himself.
As for the action scenes and special effects scenes that Lu Ping'an wanted to learn from, Lu Ping'an was the director, and he also worked with Cheng Long to complete them.
During this period, the two had many disputes, such as in terms of new technology, scripts, requirements for action scenes, etc. There were gaps in cognition and experience, and disputes were inevitable, but they were all about things, not people, and things always developed in a good way.
So the film has been shot for nearly two months, and the cooperation between the two parties is very pleasant, and the progress of the project is much faster than expected.
It is expected to be completed in one month, which is very fast.
And this speed is also based on reason.
First of all, compared with the original version, this version of the film has one less location, and one of the remaining locations has been changed to China. The rest of the locations have also been further optimized, and they can be shot in the studio.
After all, real-life shooting requires coordination of many things.
You can shoot in the studio for eight hours a day.
On a street, it is open for only two hours a day, and you have to spend money.
If things don't go well, a scene can delay you for a week or two.
This version of Lu Pingan's "Peak Season 3" removed a street scene that was extremely time-consuming, and replaced it with a closed-field scene, which directly saved at least a month of time.
Also, in the original version, Zhang Jing was difficult to shoot because of an action by the director, which took a long time, so that Cheng Long was furious on the spot and said that either pass or he would quit.
Although this kind of words are somewhat exaggerated and propaganda.
But now Lu Pingan and Cheng Long have cooperated, and Cheng Long's original words are: "Fortunately it's you, if it was the original director or another foreign director, the progress would be at least one month behind."
The cooperation between Chinese actors and Chinese directors is like this, everything can be solved in one sentence, which is very efficient.
In addition, the original film was shot in real scenes and "without special effects", but this time about 30% of the length was replaced with special effects.
For example, driving a tank in the air, fighting in the air, etc., are all actions shot in the studio, and the rest can be produced in post-production.
Cheng Long was still somewhat resistant to this at first, but after the actual filming, he felt that even if it was special effects, he was exhausted enough, and of course it was thrilling enough, which would not affect his reputation, so he was more convinced of Lu Pingan and was happy to shoot it this way.
In this way, at least one month of shooting time can be saved.
Of course, the post-production time will be longer, but that is the post-production time, there is plenty of time, and there is no rush.
In addition to the above, the most important point to achieve speed is still the golden finger.
Lu Pingan is an Asian rattlesnake!
Various temporary creation shots may take several days for other directors to get it done, but for Lu Pingan, it can be done with just a hand raise and a dispatch.
The producers of New Line were very angry at first, saying that Lu Pingan was messing around, was careless about the project, and didn't care at all!
As a result, after watching the filmed clips, they could only give a thumbs up.
It is worthy of being an Asian rattlesnake!
So the reputation of the Asian rattlesnake once again resounded throughout Los Angeles.
The filming continued in an orderly manner.
It is August now.
The domestic entertainment industry is still very lively.
In the music industry, the song "Today You're Going to Marry Me" sung by Tao Jiji and Cai Yiling swept all the weddings in August.
Guo Meimei, who was badly cheated by the girl of the same name in the Red Cross, also released "Don't Be Afraid", which swept the kindergarten, primary and junior high schools.
Xue Zhiqian, who has gained fame with "Back to 20", released his first album, of which "Serious Snow" entered the annual ranking.
Speaking of albums, the strongest ones are naturally Jay Chou's "Still Fantasy", "The Seventh Chapter of the Night", "Compendium of Materia Medica", "Thousands of Miles Away", "Listen to Mom", etc. Each song is a king bomb and can be listened to over and over again.
However, the most popular and deep-rooted ones are still online songs and peasant singers. "Perfume is Poisonous" and "Wolf in Sheep's Clothing" dominate the wireless end.
As for celebrities, in August, some are happy and some are sad.
Feng Zhi officially announced their relationship, and the time is sensitive because Feng's ex-girlfriend Wang Fei had just given birth to Li Yan.
The relationship between the three dominated the headlines, making the other male lead, Li, feel a little redundant.
Fortunately, compared with the following two, he is not too lucky.
At the beginning of the month, Chen Xiaochun had a car accident and suffered a mild concussion.
The aftermath has not yet dissipated, and the new generation idol Hu Ge had a car accident.
Hu's car accident happened earlier than in the original time and space, and the severity was much lower. No one was killed, but Hu still broke his brow bone and eyelid. It is said that he needs to undergo plastic surgery, so "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" was postponed.
Cai Yinong was a little panicked, but she quickly made a decision. She wanted to wait for Hu to recover. She asked Lu Ping'an for his opinion, and Lu Ping'an agreed directly.
This month is also a big month for talent shows.
In the new year's "Super Girl", Shang Wenjie and Tan Weiwei made their debut. Both of them were well-behaved newcomers on the stage, but in the next ten years, they took completely different paths.
In the finals of "Come on Good Man", Pu Bajia, who looks very much like Ahong, became the champion, and the promotion of the program was also unique. It appeared in student reading materials such as "Primary School Times" and "Middle School Students' World".
"My Style My Show" also entered the finals. Lu Ping'an only remembers Qi Wei in this session.
In general, 2006 was a big year for talent shows.
But in fact, among the talent shows of this year, the most legendary one should be Zhao Liying, who was selected from the Sina Advertising talent show in the first half of the year.
The least impressive thing should be the audition of "New Dream of Red Mansions" two months later.
A group of actors were selected, but they all played minor roles. In the end, they were all quite famous, more famous than many leading actors.
As for "New Dream of Red Mansions" and the entire crew, I won't talk about it.
Lu Ping'an also made some achievements in August and was very popular.
On August 14, Lu Ping'an left a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the presence of Cheng Long, Hu Qingquan and others.
This is the 2468th star on the Walk of Fame, a very interesting number.
Lu Ping'an also became the fifth Chinese to leave a star on the Walk of Fame after Anna May Wong in 1960, Bruce Lee in 1993, and Cheng Long and John Woo in 2002.
In fact, according to Lu Ping'an's race, age and achievements, it is not easy to leave a star now.
Hollywood also requires qualifications.
But at the same time, Hollywood also relies on public relations to leave stars.
It's just that the competition is not as fierce as the Oscars, and it is more obscure.
At present, Lu Ping'an has more than one Oscar statuette, which means he is definitely influential among Chinese people and has a good influence in Hollywood.
In addition, Hu Qingquan and Dingfeng Wattsberg also pushed this matter hard, and Dell, who is in charge of public relations, was also in charge.
So it was possible to leave a star smoothly, and the American society also agreed.
Of course, there is another point that cannot be ignored, that is, it is still the honeymoon period between China and the United States, and Hollywood attaches great importance to the mainland market.
So many things will be much simpler under the influence of this trend.
The mainland reported Lu Ping'an's leaving a star in Hollywood as soon as possible.
It is certain that he will occupy the headlines of the domestic entertainment industry.
The significance of being the fifth Chinese to leave a star in the world is really not small.
The Chinese people are proud of it.
Lu Ping'an also gained further status and honor.
It is just very unfortunate that the popularity of leaving a star lasted only a few hours, and the country ushered in the biggest social event in August.