Bright Star Road [Entertainment]

As mentioned above, the pre-production cycle of the entire film project is the longest, followed by the post-production cycle.In comparison, the shooting cycle is not that long.After all, with the maturity of film industrialization, the crew members are basically very professional practitioners, so filming a film is like an assembly line operation and does not require much time.And Li Wei also set aside about three months of post-production time, this is because the film does not require too much special effects production.Although "Wild Speed" is also an action film, most of the shots are special effects shots, and only need to use special effects to enhance the explosion and galloping effects. Therefore, Xie Geng and other special effects studios only took about two weeks to produce the film. A refined version is completed.Li Wei is holding this version to review the film with the senior management of Li Wei Studio and the distribution department of Kylin Films. If everyone is sure that there is nothing to modify, then the final version of the film will be confirmed.

Both Li Wei's studio itself and the distribution department of Kylin Films are very cautious about the review of "Speed ​​in the Wild".In addition to the fact that this film is the first commercial blockbuster in the true sense of Li Wei's studio, another reason is that Li Wei is interested in making this film a series of films, which is the so-called "IP film".For production companies, "IP movies" are basically a cash cow.Because the style and type of this kind of movie have been determined, the screenwriter and director can complete the production without too much brains; Keep it.Even if the series of movies collapses in the later stage, it is possible to announce the so-called end of filming miserably, which will definitely bring in a bunch of sentimental fans and make a fortune.After five or ten years, the remake plan will be launched, and this series can be resurrected from the dead and continue to prepare to cheat money.But the premise of all this is that the first three films in this series must attract fans, especially the first one must be able to retain fans.Because everyone placed too much high expectations on this movie, when reviewing the movie, everyone had a feeling of going to the execution ground to die.This makes Li Wei a little puzzled. This is obviously a very happy and exciting commercial movie, why everyone feels so wrong.

At Li Wei's request, Xie Geng edited the film very sharply.There are hardly any long shots in the movie, especially in the racing scene, Xie Geng changes the material of a shot almost every few seconds.The fast camera changes and the impactful visual effects make everyone's adrenaline rush.At the same time, the soundtrack of the movie is also very exciting, and Li Wei asked the soundtrack to make music while pinching the camera.This kind of practice is scorned as "MV movie" on the earth plane, but it is the first time it has appeared on the water blue planet plane.The powerful electronic music is paired with the scenes of chasing luxury cars, and the men and women in swimsuits edited from time to time. The whole movie is a collection of shots full of hormones.If this kind of movie goes to a film festival, it will definitely be scolded to death, but if it is put in the theater, it will make the audience want|celestial|desire|dead. After the 120-minute film ended, the entire screening room fell silent.After a few minutes of silence, everyone involved in the review began to applaud.

He Zhao, the CEO of Li Wei's studio and the producer of "Fast Speed", sighed: "Director Li, your movie has a good chance to hit the box office of 50 billion! If your movie is shot in IMAX3D If so, then it is not impossible to hit the 3 billion box office club. Director Li, is it true that our movie will not be converted into IMAX and [-]D versions? This is a sharp weapon to boost the box office!"

"No, I don't want to ruin my reputation." Li Wei refused without thinking.

According to the current ticket price policy of theaters, everyone is based on ordinary 2K movies, and 2K3D movies can be 2% higher than the standard 50K ordinary movie ticket prices; while IMAX and 4K movies can be 100% higher; as for IMAX3D and 4K3D It can float up to 150%.But just like the Earth plane, because IMAX projection equipment and shooting equipment are too expensive, most of Aquamarine's IMAX theaters use the so-called DLP technology.Due to the limitations of DLP technology, IMAX and IMAX3D projection equipment are too dim.If it is a real IMAX movie shot with IAMX cameras, then it is not bad; but if it is an IMAX movie converted with DLP technology, it will make the audience feel difficult, especially IMAX3D is completely torturing the audience.Similarly, although fake 3D movies can also be priced according to the price of 3D movie tickets, the audience is not a fool, and will not be fooled again after being cheated a few times.Nowadays, many fans read reviews before watching a movie. The attendance rate of the fake 3D movie is not as good as the 2D version of the movie.

In fact, Li Wei also wanted to use IMAX cameras to shoot "Speed", after all, IMAX technology was born for big scenes.But the problem now is that the technology of the IMAX camera is not up to standard, and there will be many problems when shooting high-speed images, so Li Wei has to use traditional cameras for shooting.But after the filming, He Zhao and others kept suggesting that Li Wei switch to 3D to cheat money.But Li Wei refused. Since he wants to create his own original film IP, the first few films should not make the audience feel that they are cheating money.Besides, Li Wei's studio has already contacted the clothing company for customization. Once the film is released, the same style of clothing and accessories will be available nationwide.Once the word-of-mouth is formed, these clothes and accessories will immediately become popular models.The huge profits in the clothing industry are very high, especially for this kind of authorized genuine peripheral clothing. The profit margin can scare the bosses of many industries to death.

After reviewing the film, Li Wei collected everyone's opinions, and after a little thought, Xie Geng asked Xie Geng to make a finer cut and make it the final edited version.After Li Wei gave Xie Geng instructions, he began to study the movie's release schedule.Generally speaking, the major distribution companies will basically communicate with each other to prevent everyone from releasing their blockbuster films together and diluting the box office.Usually within a week, up to four blockbuster films can be accommodated, and any more will cause unnecessary losses to the company.Unless it is intentional to snipe the other party's blockbuster, otherwise everyone will cooperate with each other. When the other party's blockbuster is drawn, I will arrange some small and medium-cost films to drink soup.

And Li Wei looked at it, and the only blockbusters that matched his estimated schedule were Ma Gang's "Good Women, Bad Women" and the great director Zhang Mouyi's "Monster Slaughter".Ma Gang is the first director in China to shoot pure commercial films. After experiencing countless infamy, Ma Gang finally counterattacked and became a domestic first-line director with his box office performance and audience reputation.This "Good Woman, Bad Woman" takes the urban emotional line that Ma Gang is best at, and it is a little bit colorful.Yes, the works directed by Ma Gang are basically "12 banned" or "15 banned" works, so Ma Gang is very popular in the adult market.However, general commercial films will try their best to control the works to "12 bans", so as to ensure that the film can get the biggest box office.If it reaches the "15 ban" or "17 ban", at least one-third to one-half of the box office will be lost.Therefore, Li Wei still attaches great importance to Ma Gang, because he knows how to start a fire without letting the fire spread.

Compared to Li Wei's attention to Ma Gang, Li Wei's attention to Zhang Mouyi is not so high this time.It is true that Zhang Mouyi is a great director, and his artistic achievements are enough for most directors to look up to internationally.But the biggest problem with director Zhang Mouyi is that he is best at expressing literary and artistic films that express human conflicts, and commercial films happen to be one of his weaknesses.Not to mention that literary films do not make money, but the literary films directed by Zhang Mouyi are the top box office in China.On the contrary, almost every commercial film of his is a must, so many film critics don't know how to complain.However, the slogan of the distribution company behind Zhang Mouyi this time is "Citigroup Professional Team Participation". It is said that Citigroup filmmakers participated from the script to the production, so this time the media and audience are still interested.Unlike the Chinese film industry, which is still in a tug-of-war between literary films and commercial films, Citigroup entered a thorough commercialization route as early as 50 years ago, so Citigroup accounted for more than two-thirds of the films in the tens of billions club.For movie fans, Citigroup Productions is the symbol of luxury commercial films.

"Let's make this decision. Our movie will be on the Wednesday of the week after "Good Woman, Bad Woman." Li Wei ordered.

"Isn't that going to meet Master Zhang's "Monster Slaughter City"? This movie is going to be released on Friday, so we'll release it two days in advance, so we won't be able to take advantage of it." Song Hengqing said a little puzzled, "Is it postponed for another week?"

"There's no point in postponing it for another week." Li Wei took out the film schedule and said, "What we want is the next week's free period, and try to get a wave of box office. You know, there will be two blockbuster films in the next week." If we postpone the release by a week, it means that there will be fierce tigers in the front and hungry wolves in the back, which is a tempo of courting death." Li Wei shook his head, "Besides, I got the promotional film of "Monster Slaughter City". I think this movie is probably just bluffing the general audience. It is estimated that the box office will collapse in a week. Although I also admit that this movie is directed by a master, with Citigroup special effects and post-production joining, there are also a group of actor and Xiaohua Xiaoxianrou. Pay attention. But the essence of a movie is still a story, and once our master Zhang becomes stubborn, the story often cannot be told."

Hearing Li Wei's complaints, everyone smiled knowingly.Zhang Mouyi and Cheng Kuiga are the only two super first-line directors in China. Both of them have many classic movies handed down, one is good at the gorgeous beauty of the picture, and the other is good at the long meaning of the picture.But the common shortcoming of the two is that they can't tell stories, and they are not controlled by screenwriters and editors.Zhang Mouyi and Cheng Kuiga are both traditional professional directors who believe in the "director-centered system". From the script to the casting to the final editing, they have to have a foot in it.If it's that kind of sketchy story, the skills of these two directors are enough to cover it; but if it comes to a grand narrative, the script skills of these two directors will definitely not be able to do it.Back then, Zhang Mouyi shot the purely commercial film "Heroes Invincible" for the first time. As a result, the film was complained by film critics and audiences that it was an "ancient costume conference"; while the commercial blockbuster "Revenge" shot by Cheng Kuiga was even praised as the lowest limit of domestic films.With Li Wei's encouragement, everyone felt that Master Zhang Mouyi's works were nothing more than that.

After setting the release date, Li Wei's studio began to release related news, and on the other hand, it also began to produce various promotional films, trailers, and related materials.Because this time it was sponsored by Germanic Automobile Company, the material released by Li Wei mainly focused on their new car models.At the same time, Li Wei also showed the figures of the leading actors in the material. After all, the main story scene takes place in South America, so cool attire is indispensable.