After buying Marvel, I became the king of Hollywood

Braveheart lost a lot of box office because of its head-to-head confrontation with Kevin's Batman Dark Knight.

Originally, I wanted to make up for it in the follow-up DVD market through the Oscars.

Unexpectedly, this kind of thing came out of nowhere.

Mel Gibson's reputation suddenly became infamous.

Even the DVD sales of Braveheart plummeted to the point where it was difficult to keep even capital.

Paramount immediately cut off its wrists and stopped continuing to sell DVDs of Braveheart.

Knowing all this, Kevin didn't care much about the next thing, and put all his energy on The Matrix and continued to shoot.

Chapter 161 Bullet Time

Just a few days after Kevin was busy, Jackie Chan and Tsui Hark came to the United States.

After the Chinese New Year, and at the same time arranged the work at hand, Tsui Hark was even more anxious than Jackie Chan to come to the United States when he heard the invitation from Kevin, a great director.

As a Hong Kong director, there is no one who does not want to enter Hollywood.

Leaving other things aside, in terms of investment amount alone, in Hong Kong, an investment of several million Hong Kong dollars or even tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars is generally considered a medium-to-high production.

But converted into US dollars, in the United States, it is just a micro-production with an investment of one or two hundred dollars.

The largest investment in Hong Kong, compared to the United States, is not even considered a medium-sized production.

To be able to direct a real Hollywood blockbuster is the dream of countless Hong Kong directors.

Therefore, hearing that Steve Kevin seemed to be looking for him to make a movie, Tsui Hark immediately turned down all the film appointments, and went straight to Hollywood with Jackie Chan.

As long as he can get a film contract, the investment amount is much higher than that of Hong Kong films. This is a rare opportunity, even if he is not worried about making a movie, he can't stand this temptation.

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"Is this the set of a Hollywood studio?"

Tsui Hark was shocked the first time he came to the Hollywood set.

Compared with the studios in Hong Kong, both the size of the venue and the equipment are far superior. Just thinking about shooting a movie in such a studio makes Tsui Hark worry about the Hong Kong film industry.

Knowing things from a small perspective, Tsui Hark knows how big the gap is between Hong Kong's film industry and Hollywood's film industry from just one set.

It simply made him, a Hong Kong filmmaker, desperate.

Kevin's assistant, Allie, led the two of them directly into the set. Seeing Tsui Hark's shocked expression, Allie had no intention of underestimating it.

She knew that Kevin attached great importance to the two of them, otherwise she would not be allowed to receive them.

Allie began to explain to Tsui Hark:

"This is one of the largest film companies in Hollywood, the studio of [-]th Century Fox. In Hollywood, there are no more than ten film companies with a studio of this size."

"They're basically studios that have been around since the inception of Hollywood."

"There are not many studios of this size, even in Hollywood."

Tsui Hark nodded.

It has been more than 70 years since Hollywood was established. If you calculate it this way, the Hong Kong film circle is just a baby compared with the Hollywood film circle, and it is normal if it is not as good.

After explaining, Ellie continued to lead the two towards the set.

After a while, we came to the filming scene of The Matrix.

Yuan Heping is instructing the prop masters to arrange the wires, and the filming is about to start an action scene. Because it needs to reflect the characteristics of the virtual world, under Kevin's request, it must have a surreal sense of impact.

For this reason, they have been studying new action scenes long before.

Now is the time to start shooting.

"Boss, I brought the two of them."

Ellie brought Tsui Hark and Jackie Chan to Kevin's side, then turned and left. She still had a lot of things to do.

The first time I saw Steve Kevin, Tsui Hark was obviously more reserved than Jackie Chan.

Kevin smiled and said:

"Don't be nervous, Director Tsui Hark, it's just right, come and see what is the difference between the shooting of Hollywood movies and Hong Kong."

"After understanding, I can ask you to make a movie."

Tsui Hark's eyes lit up immediately, Kevin's words confirmed the news that he was going to be invited to make a movie.

Immediately came to the spirit, hurried over.

"Okay, I also want to see how far the filming in Hollywood differs from that in Hong Kong."

Seeing that the two were chatting, Jackie Chan couldn't stand on the side, so he hurried over.

"Director Kevin, how is the arrangement of my red fan area?"

"It has been arranged, and it will be released in about a week. The number of openings is [-]!"

Jackie Chan suddenly smiled.

Hong Kong movies are generally bought out when they are produced in the United States.

In fact, many movies don't even have the chance to go to theaters. When they are bought, they are sold directly in the form of DVD.

Of course, this is not the case for Jackie Chan's movies, but they are often only shown in a small number of theaters.

The number of paintings opened by [-] is definitely quite a lot.

For Jackie Chan, this is a great opportunity for him to break into the American film market.

If the Red Fan District fails again, then he will never think about Hollywood anymore.

In order to get the American market, he has already set the background of the story in New York. If he still cannot get the approval of the American audience, then he has nothing to do.

Looking at Jackie Chan's face, Kevin continued:

"After the box office in Hongfan District comes out, as long as it is no less than 1000 million US dollars, I will invest and make a movie for you."

That's right, what Kevin said is the future, Jackie Chan's pinnacle work in Hollywood.

peak moment.

With a production cost of 3300 million US dollars, it has won a total box office of 2.4 million US dollars at the global box office. This is undoubtedly a masterpiece.

From the perspective of a film company owner, although Kevin doesn't shoot himself, there is no reason to miss it.

Not only can it help Jackie Chan enter Hollywood, but most importantly, he can also make money himself.

"I promise, this is a mid-range production even in Hollywood."

Jackie Chan couldn't stop smiling.

Since 1982 when he starred in Cannonball Speed ​​failed miserably in the Hollywood film market, no Hollywood film company is willing to invite him to film.

The Red Fan District was Jiahe's last help to him.

Now, the famous Hollywood director... no, the best Oscar director, Steve Kevin, has promised him that as long as the North American box office exceeds 1000 million US dollars, he will be invited to star in a movie.

This is definitely a good thing.

As for not even having 1000 million US dollars, Jackie Chan has never considered such a thing.

If the 1000 movie theaters open a film and can't get a box office of [-] million US dollars, then he doesn't have to consider the American film market.

Go back to Hong Kong as soon as possible and be king.

Seeing that both of them were very happy, Kevin said:

"After filming this scene, I will make arrangements tonight. Are you going out for a walk or watching the scene?"

"have a look."

The two said in unison.

Jackie Chan still has some understanding of Hollywood filming. After all, Cannonball Run is a Hollywood movie through and through, but it failed miserably at the box office.

But he still wanted to see how Steve Kevin, the Oscar-winning director, made movies.

Not to mention Tsui Hark.

Both chose to see how Kevin made the film.

Kevin nodded, ignored the two of them, and started shooting directly.

What is going to be shot at this time is the most creative scenes in The Matrix.

Bullet time and Kung Fu Neo showing off his prowess.

From a shooting point of view, the scene of bullet time is undoubtedly very funny.

Chapter 162 A Brand New Vision of Shushan Biography

Nicolas Cage, with the help of Wia, made a swimming movement, swinging his arms constantly, as if avoiding invisible bullets.

This scene made Jackie Chan on the side look dumbfounded.

Jackie Chan's movies, at least so far, do not involve any computer special effects, and everything is shot in real life.

To put it simply, it is to play with one's life.

The scene in front of him seemed very funny to him.

On the other hand, Tsui Hark was stroking his beard, looking thoughtfully at this scene.

As the director, he can tell that what is being filmed now is the scene where the character played by Nicolas Cage is dodging bullets.

In other words, the next step is to add special effects of bullets to the movie.

But judging from the special effects he knows, it is absolutely impossible for Hong Kong to achieve this kind of effect.

This made him couldn't help but marvel at the power of special effects in Hollywood movies.

At the same time, there are countless thoughts in my heart.

In particular, bringing the story of his dreams into reality, even the special effects of bullets can be achieved, it seems that the effect he imagined is not difficult.

The big question, though, is whether Steve Kevin can back him up for a movie like that.

At the same time, whether Americans can accept the concept of Xianxia is a question.

Of course, even if Steve Kevin didn't support it, he would definitely shoot it, but that was after he returned to Hong Kong.

After asking Cage to repeat this action many times, Kevin called the hired special effects team over.

"Have you seen the scene just now?"

Several people nodded.

Kevin continued to talk about his needs.

"My requirement is that the trajectory of the bullets is clearly visible in the air. Cage dodges the bullets one by one through his own movements. Note that this is a slow-motion shot."

Several people nodded, and roughly understood Kevin's needs. At the same time, they took some shots and planned to make a sample first, so that Kevin could make a complete special effects shot after confirming that it was correct.

Tsui Hark on the side couldn't help asking:

"Using bullets as the time standard? Is this bullet time?"

Kevin couldn't help giving a thumbs up.

"That's right, this shot will be called bullet time from now on, which means a slow-motion shot with bullet time as the standard."

Following Tsui Hark's words, Kevin directly defined this shot.

If you don't discuss ideas like The Matrix, it is actually a typical technical movie.

The same type, and director Cameron.

The release of this kind of film often means the innovation of film technology.

For example, after The Matrix was released, bullet time shocked the world. Since then, bullet time has been widely used in various movies.

This is an innovation in film technology.

In the future, Kevin's name can be called the father of bullet time.

As soon as he heard Kevin's description, Tsui Hark immediately knew that this would be a great achievement in film technology.