"Legend of White Ghost" has been withdrawn again...

The reason for the first withdrawal was that the theater chain did not pay enough attention and the market feedback was not good, especially the pre-sales were very bad;

The second time... I was really speechless. I didn't give a reason. I just said that the schedule was not suitable...

Liu Qianqian versus Yang Xiaomi, what a great topic.

Then...withdrew again~

You don’t understand what the producer is thinking…

Producer Zhang Lun was so confident that he became a producer for the first time and achieved his biggest victory since entering the film industry - the co-production with Australia "The Great Tsunami: Escape from the Shark's Mouth" had a domestic box office of 157 million and a global revenue of 36 million US dollars...

Yang Xiaomi said sarcastically: "I heard that this project was originally called "The Last War", and then it was renamed "Desperate Escape", and now it is changed to "White Ghost Legend: Desperate Escape"... Usually such a change shows that this

There are too many obstacles in the project..."

Shi Shi nodded: "Chang Lin went to Yunnan for a trip before, and Zhang Lun invited him to give some advice, but he didn't even bother to go see it!"

"...Is there any case in the history of film where such blind changes were made and then succeeded?"

Shi Shi nodded: "Yes!"

"Really? Which project?"

""Calabash Brothers"... I heard from Chang Lin. He said that this project was originally called "Ten Brothers", but later due to the low investment amount and difficult technical operation, it became "Calabash Brothers"..."

"ah?"

"It's true!"

Shi Shi nodded affirmatively: "Chang Lin told me several times!"

"...He seems to have made an animated movie?"

"It doesn't seem like he has invested more than 500 million and made more than a dozen animation projects. This year's "The Return of the Great Sage" and "White Snake: Origin"..."

…

In 1984, Shangmei Factory planned to put the folk tale "Ten Brothers" on the screen in a paper-cut form with Chinese characteristics, in order to compete with the American animation "Transformers".

Paper-cut animation is very different from the traditional animation methods. Looking around the world, no one has done it. It seemed very difficult at the time...

However, the creators of Shangfang Art Factory do not believe in evil. Art films must be innovative and have new forms to show to the audience. Paper-cutting is a new innovation that foreigners have never seen!

But he didn't have enough money. In order to save production costs, the chief director Hu Jinqing was forced to change the original "Ten Brothers" into seven unified images. There were only gourd dolls in different colors, and various villains were simplified into snake spirits and scorpions.

Fine, gorgeous scene turned into a cave...

Each calabash doll has to match hundreds of expressions and thousands of scenes. There is no special effects production, and there is no advanced technology. We can only rely on hand-painting, cutting again and again, and shooting frame by frame.

In this way, it took more than 50 painters two years to complete 13 episodes of "Calabash Brothers".

Once "Calabash Brothers" came out, all prefecture-level TV stations rushed to buy the broadcast rights. Sales of video tapes and VCDs hit record highs many times.

The subsequent "Gourd Little King Kong" once again detonated the market.

The Calabash Baby series has thus become the pinnacle of Shangmei Factory...

Later, "New Gourd Brothers" came out...

The gourd babies are silly and cute, and the snake spirit has become an internet celebrity. Not only that, but... Grandpa can do magic.

Grandpa knows magic, damn!

Calabash Baby, which boasted 260 episodes, was forced to stop broadcasting in just one week after it was launched, leaving endless disappointment.

Hayao Miyazaki also came to Shanghai Art Studio back then. It is said that Shanghai Art Studio's "Havoc in Heaven" solidified Miyazaki's idea of ​​​​developing a lifelong career in animation.

He even brought the film of "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind" as a gift, hoping to have technical discussions with his colleagues at Shangmei Factory.

But I didn’t expect that some leaders at Shangmei Factory were concerned about salary issues.

They asked: How much does an original painting cost in Japan? How much does an animation cost per second?

This attitude of only caring about profits and not focusing on skills greatly disappointed Hayao Miyazaki, who valued art above money, and said, "I will never come to China again!"

Whether Hayao Miyazaki wants to come to China or not is his business, but this also reflects from the side that the Academy has completely lost its "spirit, energy and spirit" due to the brain drain.

And Chinese animation also lost its bones.

When the animation production industry changes from collectivism to individualism, from art-oriented to profit-oriented, from the previous fixed salary to the salary based on the number of pieces, from the previous craftsmanship to the profit-seeking in the market economy era, the artistic

Demanding and patience have long been thrown out the window.

Nowadays, an important factor in judging the success of an animated film is the box office!

This thing belongs to the general environment and cannot be changed. Only success at the box office is success...

That's why "The Return of the Great Sage" has become a benchmark: not only does it have a good reputation, but it also outperforms the box office...

…

Shi Shi wants to promote "Take Tiger Mountain by Wisdom"...

There is no way, who makes her the heroine, or the person in charge of traffic in this movie.

Throughout the Spring Festival, she had to accept various interviews.

Fortunately, I am at BJ most of the time.

Yang Xiaomi returned to Xiangshan to continue filming "Decryption", and also promoted "The Stars" - after all, it hasn't been released yet!

Liu Qianqian, who was 'ignored' by the two of them, was also being interviewed to promote the new drama "Wuxin Master"...

"Wuxin Master" is a new year drama exclusively broadcast by Tencent Video. According to the classification, it belongs to the S+ category. After all, it cost a huge amount of money to buy - a record-breaking single episode of 6.2 million, and 35 episodes cost 217 million.

Not discounted.

Damn it, the cost alone is about 200 million...

How to get a discount?

Actors account for nearly 45% of the salary, of which Liu Qianqian’s salary is 32 million...

It is estimated that the sequel will cost 40 million!

Sissi had watched several episodes of "Wuxin Master" directed by Kong Sheng in advance, and was very confident about this drama. When promoting it, she gushed: "This drama was introduced to me by Chang Lin. He recommended that I watch "Wuxin Master".

Master Wu Xin", and then I really missed Yue Qiluo in it..."

"Why do I recommend you to watch it?"

"He knows that I have always wanted to play a neurotic character, and Yue Qiluo fits my imagination of this type of character..."

After a pause, Sissi continued: "But this subject matter is impossible to pass the review... Later I heard that Tengxun Video wanted to do it, so I signed up immediately!"

"Then please evaluate Yue Qiluo."

"Yue Qiluo has the appearance of an angel, but she still can't hide her dark and cruel nature, which is both innocent and cruel!"

"Practicing sorcery allows her to escape the constraints of the cycle of life and death, and possess wisdom, beauty, and experience that ordinary people cannot have, but she also has to pay a price. The price is that she must not be human and devour others to survive."

"Is this role easy to play?"

Qianqian frowned slightly, and then said: "It's easy to play a neurotic character well. It's okay to play a bigger role, but there is a certain degree...I couldn't grasp it at first. Later, it was Chang Lin who told me, 'Yue Qiluo treats mortals,

We look at food the same way...but she has also been a human being, so she reacts to many things.'"

"This role is difficult to grasp...I feel like I can do a pretty good job..."

"Then what do you think is the difference between online dramas and TV dramas?"

Sissi tilted her head, thought for a while, and then said: "I think the broadcast platform is different. Anyway, I haven't watched dramas on TV for a long time..."

"Many people think online dramas are quite low?"
Chapter completed!