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You look darker.

In the reception room, Ronan looked at Li An's tanned face, which was still dark and glowing, and said, Li, I haven't seen you for a few months, you have changed a lot.

Ang Lee said with a smile: In order to experience some of the scenes depicted in the movie, I often go out to sea recently, and this is because I was exposed to the sun.

Ronan knew that Ang Lee was the kind of director who did his best, and said, Life of Pi, it seems that you are ready.

Yes. Li An nodded heavily, with a serious expression on his face: I've been preparing personally for a year.

This is not the crew's preparation, but Ang Lee's own preparation. Such a director will mobilize every cell in his body if he does not move.

Ronan said: The more fully prepared, the less difficulties you may encounter in post-production, shooting and production.

Li Ang opened the briefcase he carried with him, took out the copy draft of the script, which was obviously a printout, and handed it to Ronan, saying: I have already completed the first draft of the script, and I have some preliminary plans for the adaptation of the film.

After receiving the script, Ronan slowly flipped through it, and said at the same time, Li, tell me about your plan.

Ang Lee sorted out his thoughts a bit, and said first, I'm going to shoot and produce Life of Pi in 3D.

This did not surprise Ronan. He looked up at Li An and asked, Do you want to use 3D?

At the beginning of this year, I went to Weta Studios in Wellington, New Zealand, and visited James Cameron and his Avatar crew. Ang Lee obviously had his own thoughts: I watched Avatar partially completed clips, the effect is really amazing.”

Ronan nodded slightly: Avatar uses the most outstanding special effects and 3D technology in the world.

Ang Lee continued: I wanted to shoot this story in 3D. Using 3D technology, I want to expand the film's structure so that the audience can immerse themselves in Pai's arduous journey, and their hearts are completely touched by the emotion of the story.

He thought for a moment and then said: I hope that when the film is finished, the experience it will bring to people will be as unique as Yang Martel's, so I have to create this film in another dimension. 3D is new. Film language, in the project of Life of Pi, it can not only make the audience intoxicated in the huge scale and adventure, but also immerse themselves in the emotional world of the characters in the play.

Ronan listened to Li An's words,

Combined with the script he saw in his hands, years of experience gave him a preliminary judgment: The production budget will not be less than 100 million US dollars.

Li An instantly thought of the failure of the big investment project The Incredible Hulk, and felt uneasy, but he still bit the bullet and said, Yes, according to my plan, it will cost at least 100 million U.S. dollars.

He strengthened his determination and said: This is a very intimate story of a teenager who lost his family and had to face unimaginable challenges in the magnificent nature. The core of filming this part and maintaining the emotion is Extremely complex, it has to be done with skill, determination and creativity.

Ronan put down the script and said, Li, I believe in you, and I also believe that you can bring a successful 3D movie.

Li An breathed a sigh of relief and said, I will do my best.

Ronan returned the script to Ang Lee and said, After you go back, immediately submit the relevant plan to Sandsea Entertainment, and I will let people promote this project as soon as possible.

Okay. Li An said immediately: I'll do it right away, and then go to recruit people, so that the crew can be established as soon as possible.

Ronan asked, How long will it take to finish?

Before next year's Cannes Film Festival. Ang Lee replied, I want to take this film to next year's Cannes or Venice Film Festival.

Ronan understood what he meant: I will let Embassy Pictures prepare for the awards for Life of Pi.

For this type of film, if you want to maximize the benefits, like Slumdog Millionaire, Oscar halo is essential.

The two then chatted for a while, especially about 3D technology.

Every filmmaker, especially a director, has a different view on 3D.

In Ang Lee's eyes, 3D is just a film technique, which cannot be overridden by movies. Specifically, in Life of Pi, it means that 3D technology should serve the plot in a down-to-earth manner, not show off skills.

In the words of this Chinese-American director, technology should always play the role of an auxiliary tool in movies. No matter how good the technology is, it can only be icing on the cake rather than helping people in need.

Making Life of Pi is really a very difficult task, even for Relativity Entertainment. The biggest difficulty is to grasp the balance of investment in the film.

Like a project with a multi-million dollar production budget, Ronan can let Uwe Ball do whatever he wants.

For movies with a cost of less than 50 million U.S. dollars, Ang Lee can shoot and produce according to his ideas in the Relativity Entertainment system, because they have the appeal to recover their investment in the global movie market.

It is prudent to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in any film. It is never easy to cross the barriers of art and market, especially a film that is more humanistic and artistic.

Fortunately, Ronan has some memories of Life of Pi and has enough confidence in Ang Lee.

Frankly speaking, Ang Lee's films are relatively down-to-earth. Although the pace is slow, they are never obscure.

In fact, Ang Lee has never made that kind of pretentious movie that is designed to make things difficult for the audience.

Although he has messed up the only commercial blockbuster Hulk he directed in his life so far, it is not difficult to find that Ang Lee's films are basically easy to understand when looking at Ang Lee's film list.

After Ang Lee formally submitted the production plan to Shahai Entertainment, the budget of Life of Pi was also confirmed. The initial budget is 100 million US dollars, and it will be determined whether there is any need for additional investment later depending on the situation.

Ang Lee assembled the filming team as quickly as possible, and still needed to go to India to personally choose the right actor. He hoped to find a simple Indian boy to play the leading actor Pai.

The Indian branch of Relativity Entertainment in Mumbai will fully assist Ang Lee.

In addition to Life of Pi, Relativity Entertainment has several other projects officially approved this month. Matthew Vaughan, who has completed Kick-Ass, has officially transferred to the preparation and filming of the new Kingsman .

The movie about pets of Shahai Entertainment Animation Studio was also officially launched under the promotion of Ronan, and the project was named The Secret Life of Pets.

In terms of live-action fairy tale movies, Cinderella started script writing.

Unlike the dark fairy tale movies that are evolving in Hollywood today, this brand new Cinderella will follow the fairy tale as much as possible.

It follows, of course, not the original Cinderella story, but a children's version widely circulated around the world.

If it were to be filmed according to the earliest folk tales, this film would probably be classified as NC-17.

Many fairy tales first originated in the folk. Compared with the later versions, they were originally legends full of violence, blood and even astringent elements.

For example, things like egg lun are nothing in those versions, they are just commonplace.

As for the plot of Cinderella running out of the palace and stopping to throw shoes, it is impossible to appear in the live-action fairy tale movie shot by Relativity Entertainment.

In addition, Sand Sea Entertainment is also making preliminary contact with Angelina Jolie, intending to invite her to play the role of a witch in another live-action fairy tale movie.

But Angelina Jolie is full of doubts about playing a witch, because since she got together with Brad Pitt, although her commercial value has obviously increased, her image is worrying. From a long-term perspective, playing a vicious witch is not an ideal choice. .

Shahai Entertainment is not in a hurry, and plans to reassure Angelina Jolie's doubts with the script's plot and character settings after the script is completed. After all, this witch is not vicious.

Like the subversive prince and snow queen in Frozen, witches are not necessarily bad, and Sleeping Beauty doesn't need a prince to wake her up.

In March, Relativity Entertainment still has movies released. In this relatively cold schedule, there are no first-line commercial movies.

In the first ten days of the month, the Reaper is Coming series appeared in North American theaters for the fifth time. Reaper may be late, but he will never be absent.

This time, a group of Americans who escaped the collapse of the bridge will face death in a life-threatening journey, and it will be useless to escape to the ends of the earth.

It is still a patterned routine, bloody and cruel death, but compared with the previous works, this one still successfully creates a horror atmosphere of the entire slow death process, allowing the audience to experience the suffocation of sitting on pins and needles again pleasure.

The invisible god of death is more terrifying than the visible killer, which has always been a major selling point of the series Reaper is Coming.

No matter how you escape, you will inevitably die in the end.

With a large number of fans accumulated in the first four films, Reaper 5 does not lack an audience. It earned 28.95 million US dollars at the box office during its opening weekend in North America.

Simultaneously released overseas, the response even surpassed that in North America, and nearly 35 million US dollars entered the box office account in the first weekend.

According to a more conservative estimate by Embassy Pictures, the global box office of Reaper 5 is expected to reach 180 million US dollars.

Not to mention predictions, the results of the opening drawing can already allow the death game to continue.

After this film, Embassy Pictures launched another work Lincoln Vs Zombies. Since the production cost was only 150,000 US dollars, the shooting was quite rough, and there was nothing special to hype and publicize. The film was directly pushed into DVD market and Netflix streaming.

For such a B-grade movie, the cost return is not a big problem, the only suspense is how long it will take.

With the help of Bao Ge's Netflix sharing account and the official website of Vampire Hunter Lincoln and other publicity, Lincoln Vs Zombies sold 50,000 sets of DVDs in one week after its launch, not only realized the cost return, but also made hundreds of thousands of dollars in profit.

At the end of March, Embassy Pictures launched the real key project of this month-Kung Fu Dream.

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