Chapter 469 My mother asked me why I was kneeling to watch the movie

On the evening of the 8th, a private room in a large hotel near the China Film Academy was completely full, and several nearby private rooms were also full of people.

After all, there were too many people who received the news in advance and came together to watch the big special effects movie today. In order to have a sneak peek first, many leaders or old-school directors of the Shanghai Theatre Academy stayed in Beijing for quite a few days to urge Teacher Guo.

Watching movies multiple times in the afternoon was a big bombshell to all colleagues in the film and television industry, and everyone felt dizzy.

This is similar to the situation in the 90s when mainland filmmakers were suddenly bombarded with a series of movies such as Jurassic Park, Titanic and Independence Day, which caused people in the circle to feel inferior.

An ordinary 2D screen gives you a 3D IMAX viewing experience, even if only a part of it. Whether it is the mythical special effects of Yugong moving the mountains, or the wandering special effects that can only be reached twenty years later, this is really a dimensionality reduction blow.

President Han couldn't believe that China Film invested in such a great and epoch-making work, and that Mr. Guo was still the producer... He wasn't drunk yet, but after drinking a few glasses, he sang loudly on the spot, and many people sang along with him.

This scene was so exciting.

Some directors, producers, factory managers, etc. who were originally superstitious about the Hollywood special effects industry wanted to switch to Wang's arms on the spot.

Perform superstition on the spot and transfer!
This is indeed many times more shocking than the Infernal Affairs series. Infernal Affairs is mainly a literary drama, a gun-fight action film, and it rises to prominence by upgrading the plot and acting skills of traditional Hong Kong films. The theme does not surpass the most classic Hong Kong films by much.

Taken only created a new type of action, and even Train to Busan, which bombed the world, was just a zombie make-up, and all the actors had to do was act.

To put it bluntly, as long as you have a script of the same level and good investment operations, other people can also make it, copy it, but what about The Wandering Earth? No, you can't do it!
Without the world's top supercomputers to create special effects, you just can't produce them no matter how much money you are given.

There was an endless stream of people coming to toast Wang Chengguang and Zhou Wenwen at the table where they were sitting. Many people were waiting in line to toast them. In addition to toasting them as a token of their appreciation, many film studios, directors, etc. also wanted to ask if they could join in the fun.

Because everyone has come to their senses. It is not easy to find a script like The Wandering Earth, and it is not necessarily possible to be familiar with the shooting process and motion capture mode on the green screen directly during filming. This aspect can only be handled by the Wang family or the crew led by Nancy and Zhou Wenwen.

But... you can learn it.

Although there are no science fiction books at the level of The Wandering Earth, there is no shortage of mythological books, whether it is The Monkey King Makes Trouble in Heaven, Nezha Conquers the Dragon King, The Three Strikeback Demon, etc.

Many film studios and big directors have really come to their senses and made a live-action version of "The Monkey King 3: The End of the Demon World" or something like that, telling the story simply and clearly, with special effects up to the standard of "Yugong Moves Mountains", which will definitely attract countless audiences to the cinema and spend money to watch the movie.

Anyway, before being bombarded with dozens of brainwashing rounds of super special effects, these veteran filmmakers will be eager to spend money to watch the movie, let alone ordinary audiences.

This is a mountain of money.

When toasting at the table, many directors or factory managers dare not mention it directly, nor is it convenient to mention it, after all, there are too many colleagues present. But they just do it for the sake of politeness, make some familiar faces and then try to get a chance, as these are golden ways to make money.

The toasting changed several times. Boss Han, who was helping to block the drinking, coughed a few times and cursed, "Alright, I've already drunk nearly a pound of wine for Director Wang. That's all for today. If anyone dares to come over, you have to drink three pounds of wine first before you can talk about congratulating Director Wang."

Other leaders of China Film Group also stood up and refused to be scolded.

After Wang Chengguang smiled and poured a cup of tea for Mr. Han, Mr. Han sat down and exclaimed, "Director Wang, I am really impressed. When the filming in the mainland cost more than 800 million yuan, we invested less than 200 million yuan. We thought that as long as it could promote the development of the film industry, it would be considered as laying the foundation, similar to building a road."

"We are not afraid of losing money, but now I am sure that we can really make money! Let's set a small goal of 8 million in the Mainland, 8000 million in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and 3000 million in South Korea. We can sell the ports to Europe and the United States for at least million US dollars, and sell the island countries and Southeast Asia for another million US dollars?"

"We can really make it back! And I can be sure that this is a great rise of our Chinese film industry. The only thing I'm worried about now is that Director Nancy's special effects base will not be taken away by Hollywood or South Korean consortiums, right?"

President Han is so confident, not only because he has been baptized by special effects blockbusters, but more importantly, it is the confidence gained from Infernal Affairs, Taking the Hell and Train to Busan.

The box office of Train to Busan alone has exceeded 2.5 million RMB in mainland China. The box office of The Wandering Earth, which allows you to experience the world-destroying blockbuster in person, cannot possibly not double that.

Now is the Internet age. Before coming out for dinner, everyone tried watching the trailers of "Yugong Moves the Mountains" and "The Wanderer" on small screens such as computers and color TVs. Although they were also amazing, there was a huge gap between them and the immersive 3D IMAX experience.

It would be unscientific if this kind of movie couldn't make money!

The only thing Mr. Han is worried about now is being taken advantage of and strangled. Wang Chengguang smiled and drank his tea. "It's not a big problem for now. The other South Korean chaebols can at most give some money and get some shares, but they can't make decisions."

"What really makes these blockbuster films difficult is time efficiency. Because there are so many special effects shots in a movie called Wandering, the entire special effects base needs seven or eight months to work on just this one movie."

“If we accept special effects orders for three or four movies at the same time in the future, and the base does not expand, it will take one or two years to produce a movie of this standard.”

President Han was delighted. “Even if we release one movie a year, we don’t have to worry about Hollywood slaughtering our mainland market. At least we won’t become like the island countries or Europe.”

Old Han was more than happy, he was extremely surprised.

Surprised, he drank the wine in big gulps. After he finished, he realized that he had picked up the wrong cup and drank the liquor as tea. "It's over, but even if I lose my memory tomorrow, this is worth it..."

As he was talking, he began to feel dizzy.

Before, I drank the wine on the spot. The cup was a few cents. I couldn’t drink it anymore so I had to put it in a big cup. This cup is almost half a pound! !

Teacher Guo quickly replaced Mr. Han's position, also holding the thermos cup and laughing, "Director Wang, it's amazing. I feel that the new forces in the film industry will become more popular again. That Pan Wanli was also a pure newcomer before he performed. After the performance, he continued to return to the Beijing Aerospace Control Center."

"If the Lunar New Year movie season comes, he will definitely be famous all over the world. Your studio is the biggest god-making studio in the 00s."

“If you plan to go public and raise funds, you might be able to make more money than the Spark platform.”

There are only three directors in Wang Chengguang Film Studio, but each of the stars who are promoted by the Yin Army has contracts for at least ten films.

Take Huang Zhenhua for example. He has only filmed four movies including the supporting role in The Wandering Earth, and there are still six to go. However, the film contracts he now accepts from outside are basically priced at 2000 million RMB per movie.

Ling Jing and Fang Keming are both popular Hong Kong stars. Apart from the first and second installments of Infernal Affairs, they both have eight movies left. If Pan Wanli becomes a global star in the New Year, he will also have nine more film contracts...

With a pile of star contracts, horror copyrights of various blockbusters, and a series of sequels, if this were put into the capital market and could not raise tens of billions of RMB in market value, it would definitely be a huge loss.

Even an amateur like Lao Guo can understand this clearly even though he is in a fog!
Adding the valuation of the Xinghuo platform, wow, in just over two years after graduation, Lao Wang, Nancy, and Zhou Wenwen squeezed together to become billionaires. But this was only in 2002, and billionaires were still a big hype in the mainland.

If you have a net worth of tens of billions, you can make it into the top ten of the rich list!

Wang Chengguang laughed, "Drink tea, Lao Guo, aren't you a dean or something in the new semester?"

Teacher Guo couldn't stop laughing. "Not so fast, just take it step by step. But with students like you, I will dare to try to be a principal in the future."

The president of Beijing Film Academy came over after lying on the sofa for a while and sobering up, "..."

Did he just take a nap? Did Guo want to usurp the throne?
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After a noisy night, Wang Chengguang finished two scripts in the hotel before calling Zhou Wenwen into the guest room. He grabbed a script and said, "Nancy became a god with Train to Busan, and you are still a little unknown. I plan to shoot the next drama Chang'e Flying to the Moon, and Chang'e will be Huang Yimei. It's time to arrest the crew."

"Do you want to take some photos of rural teachers?"

This is a big project prepared for Zhou Wenwen. Rural Teachers is also a science fiction blockbuster. Although not many things are filmed on Earth and they may not be that exciting, on one side are rural teachers and on the other side is Star Wars.

It only needs to show the horrific scenes of various star-level conquests, destroying stars, smashing asteroids with one shot, etc., and the last two narrative lines shift to rural teachers saving the earth.

Only a 2D screen is needed to create a 3D IMAX viewing experience, which is definitely more potential than the original Avatar. At least it is more exciting than the main storyline of Avatar.

After the protagonist dies of cancer, we visit his grave...

After reading the script, Zhou Wenwen couldn't help but smile and sigh, "Boss, our classic tomb sweeper organization is really going to brainwash the world with one blockbuster after another."

She has also watched special effects blockbusters in person. Just reading the script, and then imagining the audience being in the starry sky like space dust watching the interstellar war? Who wouldn't get a tingling sensation?

If you don't have good concentration, you will probably have to kneel down and watch the whole thing.

The protagonist of "Rural Teacher" Li Baoku is a teacher in a remote and backward northwestern village.

In the tomb-sweeping easter eggs, people who visit the tomb directly complain about Teacher Li's merits and the good things he has done. Only then can he be worthy of reincarnation into the royal family in the next life, or become the only heir to a large conglomerate to be worthy of his achievements.

If this is the only drama with tomb-sweeping Easter eggs, the audience would feel that the Easter eggs are a bit fragmented. After all, a lot of Star Wars and cosmic civilizations have just been shown, and it would be a bit biased to suddenly talk about reincarnation. However, there are blockbusters such as Infernal Affairs, Hurricane and Train to Busan as a prelude.

Even The Wandering Earth has laid the groundwork!

I've already gotten used to the tomb-sweeping scene after the linkage, and those who are familiar with Wang's movies will definitely get used to it silently.

Wang Chengguang laughed, "Now that you've chosen it, just get busy. For the interstellar war special effects, just take some photos of the models in the studio and have a large number of models made. Don't worry about the rest."

There are so many star-level wars and spaceships in the plane of Shrouding the Sky that you can create a wonderful battle with just your hands.

He himself summoned Huang Yimei and tried various ancient costume styles to take makeup photos.

On October 10, after Huang Yimei had finalized a series of makeup photos, Wang Chengguang instructed in the hotel room, "Post your previous photos online to build momentum for Chang'e's flight to the moon, and hype up the Wandering Earth project at the same time."

"There were many famous actresses who played Chang'e before, but after this version, you can represent the name Chang'e."

Although this version of Little Rose is a little fat, it is just compared to the thin Bai Youshou who is so thin that you can see her ribs. Huang Yimei, who is in her early 20s, puts on ancient costumes and takes a few scenes of ancient idols. With Wang Chengguang's shooting ability...

It can indeed lead the aesthetic trend.

Huang Yimei's blog now has 1200 million followers, making her the most powerful Weibo queen besides Nancy and Zhou Wenwen, simply because she bombarded theaters with Taken wearing all kinds of fashionable and modern outfits.

After all, this was before The Wandering Earth was released, and the character Han Duoduo she played was not yet famous!

Some people can really monopolize the aesthetic views of a generation at the right age.

Huang Yimei smiled so hard that her teeth were exposed. "Thank you for the compliment, Director. I am still a little behind super talented women like Nancy and Sister Wenwen. But how should we promote the Wandering Earth project?" Wang Chengguang said happily, "You @ Ma Haowen and say that during the Wandering Earth project, you learned a lot from Mr. Ma on the set, including acting skills. You can also praise Pan Wanli and the others. Let's promote each other commercially."

Huang Yimei's praise of them may be false commercial mutual praise. After all, those people all have Yinbing teacher, and there is only one Ma Haowen... that is also the power of the teacher. Others praising Huang Yimei can only mean that she really passed the test when she played a vase.

The top student’s brain is not wasted.

This is the promise made to Ma Haowen, a response to the fact that he would be cleared of all charges within three years.

As long as a person becomes famous, there is no need to arrange anything. Countless media will follow the hot topics on their own. The fact that Ma Haowen was in prison for seven years will stand out all of a sudden.

As for whether Ma Haowen himself was affected? He had already collected countless materials over the years to prove that the design plan and various construction data of the Dongpei Bridge he designed were completely different from those during the actual construction.

The bridge's seismic parameters, bearing capacity, and the strength and durability of materials such as reinforced concrete are all far from the design plan...otherwise, it would be impossible for the bridge to collapse before it was actually opened.

Countless predecessors in the dregs world have to pay homage to this bridge, it is the best dregs among the dregs.

If the media chases him, all Ma Haowen needs to do is post the information online and become famous in China? Dongpei will definitely conduct a thorough investigation from top to bottom, and those who deserve to go to jail will naturally go to jail, and Ma Haowen will be cleared of all charges.

In the past, this would have been a big culprit for Ma Haowen's death. It was nothing more than just kicking him around like a ball, with the real corrupt officials spending money and lobbying.

The facts are as expected.

A super V and celebrity like Huang Yimei posted a status update. In addition to the high-definition photos that made countless people jealous, she also @ed a bunch of seniors from the Wandering crew to express her gratitude, and promoted the new movie "Chang'e Flying to the Moon"?

As soon as Rose finished her work, Huang Zhenhua jumped out and scolded her that she was a sister who forgot her brother, and why he, as a brother, didn't receive any thanks? This interaction between siblings was obviously a joke and a teasing one, so no one was really angry.

But Huang Zhenhua is popular!

Train to Busan, which just took the world by storm at the end of the summer season with its delayed release, easily broke 6000 million US dollars at the weekend of its second week in North America, and broke 3000 million US dollars in its second week in the island country.

Europa’s total amount is 4800 million US dollars.

This is the figure of 1.37 million US dollars cut out after the sale, and this is just the first weekend, plus today, October 10th, is only the Saturday of the second week!

Countless people believe that this film will easily break 1.5 million US dollars in the first weekend and the second week, and it will not be difficult to break 3 million in total in the future. This concept is too huge, which is equivalent to breaking all the records that Asian films can break.

This is a record for Asian films, not just Chinese films.

Huang Zhenhua is definitely the leading man! The interaction between this brother and the girl has increased Huang Yimei's fans by millions in a short period of time. Many of them are new users who have just watched movies in Europe and the United States and have just found out about the Xinghuo blog platform and registered.

After the group of actor teachers that Huang Yimei @ also started to interact, both the Wandering Earth project and the Chang'e Flying to the Moon movie became popular.

Countless netizens were conquered by Huang Yimei's photo of Chang'e in ancient costume, and felt that this was the fairy Chang'e in their minds.

Various topics were discussed, and among them, Pan Wanli, a staff member of the Beijing Aerospace Control Center, was listed as the male No. 1 in The Wandering Earth? This abruptness shocked many people, and Huang Zhenhua used his own example.

He used to be a junior leading designer at the Beijing Architecture Institute. As long as he has the ability, it will not prevent him from acting in film projects. He and Huang Jianzhi are really the best examples. The whole network is speechless and speechless under the proof of this father-son duo.

Then, some netizens from Dongpei were shocked! I don’t know which passerby netizen discovered Ma Haowen’s background and recognized him as a former prisoner who caused a newly built bridge to collapse. This directly made the topic of The Wandering Earth inviting a criminal to star in a drama popular.

October 10, Double Ninth Festival.

The topic of Ma Haowen, who had been in prison, infiltrating the crew and playing a major supporting role became a hot topic, and the entire network was awakened to a wave of Dongpei memories from the early 90s. The news of the Asian Games torchbearer relay and the collapse of the Dongpei Bridge section were all over the Internet.

Assistant director Zhou Wenwen made a public post, "@全网, Mr. Ma did something wrong, but he was reformed in prison for seven years and has been out for four or five years. He was also very gentle and polite when he was on the crew, and he was very wise in life."

"In recent years, he has been working hard to restore his reputation. The design plan and various quality parameters he provided for the bridge case are not entirely consistent with the actual construction process, but they are also very different. If a bridge collapses, who is the biggest scapegoat, the designer or the construction party? I believe everyone knows."

"Teacher Ma failed to supervise properly and was deceived by some people. He is guilty, but our crew believes that he is not the only one at fault."

The designer has supervisory responsibilities during the construction phase and is also required to conduct safety inspections. Ma Haowen's mistake was that he was betrayed by his most trusted disciple, Lu Datou.

The entire Internet was in an uproar when this news came out.

Ma Haowen doesn't need to say more. Anyone with a little insight and a normal outlook will know that there is something wrong here, something serious. Is it a case of wrongful imprisonment? There is nothing wrong with it. A bridge collapsed because the quality of the building did not meet the standards.

The designer shouldered the biggest responsibility for seven years? What about the construction company? Did the construction company not have any problems? This is ridiculous. It is impossible for the designer to bear all the responsibilities alone.

This happened in the early 00s, when the news attracted public attention and spread all over the Internet. All the departments and units that had treated Ma Haowen like a ball for several years were dumbfounded.

It has only been 12 years since the collapse of the Dongpei Bridge, which happened not too far from Beijing. Various voices were heard online, and rumors were flying everywhere before the court had a chance to say anything.

Soon, Ma Haowen was betrayed by his closest apprentice, Lu Datou, who was also a college student in the late 80s and a child of destiny. He joined the Dongpei Design Institute right after graduation. Lu Datou took over the supervision, safety inspection and other work, and deceived his superiors and subordinates and the construction party to engage in various forms of corruption and embezzlement.

He made terrible tofu and when something went wrong he blamed it on the master.

Now Lu Datou has become the dean...

It has been 12 years since something happened, and many of the participants at that time are still there. Ma Haowen has been treated like a ball by multiple units. How could this have lasted for so many years without Lu Datou's money?

It cannot be said that there are people everywhere who know the inside story, nor is it as simple as just a few or dozens of people. Before the court said anything, various online revelations including news have cleared Ma Haowen's name.

Then, the public was even more confused! Shocked and excited, they suddenly discovered something strange: in reality, when people get into trouble and get cheated, it is sometimes really difficult to get fairness and innocence.

The Spark Blogging Platform could actually clear Ma Haowen's name? ? This was a really fun thing that was worth billions of dollars, and it made the entire Internet buzz with excitement.

The crew of The Wandering Earth has become another magical label!

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Time passed quickly, and on January 2003, 1, New Year's Day, both the Rural Teachers and Chang'e Flying to the Moon crews were on holiday. Huang Yimei came to visit early in the morning with gifts.

After a polite greeting, she smiled and said, "Director, there is no new film of yours released recently. Many netizens are complaining online that a good schedule is wasted without a good film to watch."

The long holiday from Christmas to New Year's Day is a well-known holiday period and also the most important period in the West. Mainland audiences, who originally had no habit of going to theaters to watch movies, have been bombarded with a series of films from Director Wang Chengguang's studio, and have aroused some enthusiasm for watching movies.

Moreover, with more and more movie screens in mainland China, many young people and couples choose to go to the cinema to watch movies, which is also a good consumption model.

Wang Chengguang smiled and said, "It will be soon. The day after tomorrow is the first day of the twelfth lunar month. The Wandering Earth can be released on the day of the Little New Year, and the publicity and promotion can also start. After the New Year, the production of Chang'e Flying to the Moon will require big special effects, but your Taken 2 can be launched."

“Hurricane’s production and release were quite efficient.”

Now, he has given large-screen LCD screens to many cinema chains in the mainland, and they have been hung on thousands of landmark buildings in China, including the Harbour City. Even more than 300 of them have been given to South Korea.

More than 2,000 super black-tech large screens have now become another type of outdoor cinema.

It is so beautiful to watch blockbuster movies on those LCD screens. The owners of some landmark buildings in small cities have the idea and execution to play some old movies at night to attract traffic. Anyway, it is much more attractive than various drive-in theaters.

After all, it is black technology and the viewing effect is great!

Thinking of this, Wang Chengguang issued an order to have the 2000-minute "Yugong Moves the Mountains" and the space elevator easter egg from "The Wandering Earth" appear on more than LCD screens tonight.

Huang Yimei was also overjoyed when she heard this, "It's finally going to be released? We've all been waiting for it for a very long time. In the battle in the space elevator, Sister Nancy even pretended to be me to make things happen. This is the first time the two of us will be on the same screen together."

“Although the outdoor LCD platform cannot display the immersive 3D IMAX version, it will definitely shock East Asia. This kind of technological special effects is really fantastic.”

At this stage, it is safer to promote The Wandering Earth by building momentum more than 20 days in advance.

Wang Chengguang smiled and said, "Then you can post a dynamic to warm up. At 10 o'clock tonight, everyone is welcome to enjoy a -minute experimental special effects short film for free."

In addition to meeting billions of viewers in China and South Korea, Yugong Yishan will also be successfully launched on Xinghuo Video to set the barrage trend on fire.

In the Internet era, video platforms have greater driving force.

Huang Yimei nodded and ran to find her notebook. As she started a new round of updates, the Internet exploded again. What was going on? Experimental short films were being screened on more and more landmark outdoor screens across the country?
There are also Easter eggs in Wandering! Movie Easter eggs, promotional reminders that are worthy of Huang Yimei's attention? However, recalling Wang Chengguang's achievements, a large number of fans are still looking forward to it.

As for Wang Chengguang himself... he began to be bombarded with calls from President Han, the president of Beijing Film Academy, and various other acquaintances.

Those people have not forgotten the soul-shaking feeling of the 3D viewing effect when they watched "Foolish Old Man Moves the Mountains" for the first time. Now that the Easter eggs and publicity of "The Wandering Earth" are about to meet officially, what about the whole film? What about the finished film?

Anyone who can contact Wang Chengguang basically says nice things and begs them to watch the finished film!
Even the film producers who used to buy out the overseas distribution rights of Wang's films have come to see The Wandering Earth. The film producers have also made a lot of money from Wang Chengguang. For example, Train to Busan, excluding China and South Korea, ultimately grossed 3.8 million US dollars.

Even if the publishers only got back $1.5 million, they still made a lot of money! Not to mention that the publishers got more than $1.5 million.

With a movie like that, who wouldn’t be looking forward to the second one? The momentum of The Wandering Earth is obviously much bigger and more grand than Train to Busan, at least the investment is not deceptive.

Including the data displayed by the South Korean special effects production base, the total investment of The Wandering Earth is nearly 1.5 million US dollars, which is more than ten times that of Train to Busan.

At 8 o'clock on the evening of New Year's Day, moviegoers from Beijing, provincial capitals, or prefecture-level cities all showed up at a place where they could see the large outdoor LCD screen and watched the ten-minute film "Foolish Old Man Moves the Mountains"...

Everyone was shocked! Although there was no 3D IMAX viewing effect, the super large screen showed the terrifying mythological special effects, which still strongly impacted the hearing and sight of every fan. It was truly an unprecedented audio-visual blockbuster experience.

When the Wandering Earth space elevator took off after just a few seconds, everyone was stunned. This was New Year's Day in 2003. Countless audiences and moviegoers had not experienced too many Hollywood blockbusters, and most of them were pirated copies and watched on small screens.

The big screen's black technology displays great special effects, and the impact of the pictures really makes countless people excited and their bodies go weak!
(End of this chapter)