Chapter 537: "The Return of the Great Sage" And "The Hunger Games 2" Are Both Online, and the Two Are Completely at Odds!

Outside the Dolby (formerly Kodak) Theater, a brand new red carpet had already been laid out.

In addition to the media holding cameras on both sides of the red carpet, there were also many fans waving flags and shouting, either supporting the movie, supporting the actors, or just joining in the fun...

When Chen Fei walked onto the red carpet, he immediately saw the group of die-hard fans wearing Red Bull logo jackets.

Without any hesitation, he walked straight over there, and then took out a can of Red Bull from his arms as if by magic.

Pull it open and drink it all!

There was a burst of enthusiastic cheers at the scene, and the fans burst into extremely crazy shouts!

"Fei, L love you're..."

After the interaction, Chen Fei walked into the Dolby Theater.

As a movie heroine, the eldest cousin can be regarded as the most dazzling one in this event. At this time, many people gathered around her and chatted.

However, after Chen Fei entered the stage, his eyes were immediately attracted to Leonardo and Matt Damon.

The two people were surrounding a middle-aged man wearing sunglasses and looking carefully at him. It could be clearly seen that in addition to being shocked, they were still shocked!

In a seat next to the three people, Jack Nicholson also looked amazed.

He had taken off the sunglasses that usually rested on the bridge of his nose, but there were a pair of bright eyes on his old cheeks, staring unblinkingly at the man in front of him.

And when Chen Fei got closer, he realized that the person who was paying attention to the three people was none other than Matthew McConaughey!

"Ouch?!"

At this moment, no matter how calm Chen Fei was, he couldn't help but let out an exclamation.

"Matthew? How much weight have you lost?"

Since returning to China in April, Chen Fei has never seen Matthew McConaughey again.

However, the two still occasionally texted or emailed to exchange some ideas for the "Dallas Buyers Club" script.

At the same time, Matthew will also report to Chen Fei on his preparation progress from time to time.

By mid-May, he had already informed Chen Fei via email, saying that he had made all preparations before filming.

Today is his first public appearance after losing weight.

From the moment he walked on the red carpet, he has already received a lot of surprises!

Both fans and insiders couldn't help but exclaimed when they learned that he had transformed from a healthy middle-aged man into a skinny, terminally ill image in just over a month:

"This is so cool!"

When faced with Chen Fei's question, Matthew McConaughey subconsciously pushed up the sunglasses on the bridge of his nose and responded in a very calm tone: "About 50 pounds."

Fei Chen was immediately impressed!

50 pounds is approximately equivalent to 23 kilograms, or 46 kilograms.

In just over a month, I lost a total of 46 pounds!

It’s unbelievable just to think about it, let alone to do it in person.

"You are the best!"

Chen Fei did not hesitate to praise him and gave him a thumbs up.

He discovered from the time he was filming "Interstellar" that Matthew takes his role far more seriously than other actors.

And now, in order to star in "Dallas Buyers Club", he even lost 46 pounds in one and a half months.

This is a truly competent actor!

With this alone, he is qualified to compete for the Best Actor Oscar!

However, at this moment, Matt Damon on the side suddenly said: "Matthew really paid a lot for this role. He lost weight too quickly and even caused adverse symptoms in his eyesight."

The approval in Chen Fei's heart became stronger and he asked with concern: "Have you gone to see a doctor?"

Matthew McConaughey nodded slightly: "The doctor said it's not serious. He just needs to rest for a while to recover."

As he spoke, he also specifically added: "Fei, don't worry, I won't affect the shooting. Give me two more days and I can definitely adjust my condition."

"Okay."

Chen Fei nodded slightly and responded.

According to the plan, the movie's production time will be officially launched on June 2.

But it doesn’t matter if it’s delayed for a few days.

The filming budget for this film is very abundant, and including subsequent public relations expenses, the expected investment will not be less than US$70 million.

For a literary feature film, such an investment is obviously very exaggerated!

But Chen Fei doesn't mind. As long as he can win a prize, he won't lose money even if he invests 100 million US dollars.

…

The time soon came to 11 o'clock in the morning, and the premiere viewing officially started.

Michael Bay also came to the premiere today. When he sat down, he turned to look at Chen Fei and said: "I have already watched a screening before, and it was great!"

The famous disaster film director Roland Emmerich echoed on the other side: "I also participated in a screening event in New York. According to my personal opinion, it is even better than the first step."

Chen Fei said politely: "Thank you for your support and praise."

Although the film only officially held its premiere today, the media, audiences, film critics and theater managers have held three consecutive test screenings, and the film's reputation in all aspects has already been lifted.

This shows the strong confidence of the film's producer, Waltons Pictures, in the sequel!

On Rotten Tomatoes, the freshness is as high as 95%, the MTC average score is 80 points, and the IMDB audience score is temporarily 8.7.

Judging from all data, the box office performance of this sequel will definitely not be too bad!

The screening officially begins.

The story of the second part roughly tells the story of Katniss Everdeen, the winner of the 74th Hunger Games, who became the trigger for the people's revolt. In order to get rid of this serious problem, Panem President Snow decided to recall her in the next game. Previous champions competed, and Katniss, who was forced to enter the Hunger Games again, could only give it a try...

The long and stinky foreshadowing, like an old lady's foot-binding cloth, was constantly compressed, compressed, and compressed again, and more scenes were occupied by intense action scenes and duel scenes.

In the second part, the grown-up Katniss's strength has been fully improved, and her wisdom has also been enhanced compared to the first part.

All the enemies and crises that stood in front of her were resolved one by one by her wisdom and strength.

The film easily aroused the emotions of the audience, allowing them to accompany the protagonist in the "Hunger Games" arena to find a chance to survive.

At the end of the film, Katniss wrapped the originally arranged wire around the bow and arrow, and when lightning struck, she shot an arrow into the closed dome.

As a result, lightning destroyed the dome of the Hunger Games arena, causing the game to be interrupted.

The rebels who had planned everything took the opportunity to rescue her, freeing her from the predicament and officially regaining her freedom!

At the end of the film, Peeta Mellark, who had gone through a journey of life and death with her, failed to escape because of a single step difference. This also paved the way for the third sequel.

At the end of the premiere, the audience burst into warm applause again.

James Wan led the creative team on stage, thanked the guests who attended, and then invited everyone to have a meal in the banquet hall.

…

The remaining two days of May flew by.

On June 1st, "Journey to the West: The Return of the Great Sage" was officially released in mainland theaters.

In North America, "The Hunger Games 2" was also released on a large scale with 4,163 theaters. Its popularity has officially ignited the North American summer vacation. !

However, just when Chen Fei was checking all the props and equipment before the launch of "Dallas Buyers Club", a "big melon" appeared in China.

Zhang Weiping, who had not been seen for a long time, suddenly jumped out at the beginning of June and publicly reprimanded Zhang Yimou.

He claimed that Zhang Yimou's studio was a completely illegal company, and also accused the other party of abducting New Picture's contracted artists.

According to his description, "girls" and "boys" such as Dou Xiao, Ni Na, Zhou Dongyu, etc. all refused to obey the company's arrangements under Zhang Yimou's coaxing.

Finally, he even used some extremely disgusting metaphors.

Such as "I am the mother of these children", "Zhang Yimou is just a midwife at most", "He is trying to take away my flesh and blood"...

Many very uncomfortable metaphors are flooded on major film and television information network platforms, which is really dizzying.

This is also the first time since the rumors of two Zhang's breakup spread that they have completely broken up on the Internet!

"Zhang Weiping declared that he would ban these people, but no one chose to listen to him. They all took the show secretly in private."

Ning Hao is also an old "gua" citizen, and he knows the inside story very well.

"You should have seen that Ni, right? Her methods are much better than others. She got into Huayi's relationship and got together with Feng Shaofeng.

Until now, all her brokerage business has been handled by Feng Shaofeng's agent.

That Liang Yan is no ordinary agent. She has both strength and resources. She is also responsible for Ni Ni's lawsuit. "

Chen Fei shook his head, suddenly feeling that the chaos in this circle was more complicated than he imagined.

"Zhang Weiping is completely screwed this time."

It is no exaggeration to describe his experience with the phrase "a tiger falls flat but is bullied by a dog".

You know, when the two Zhangs collaborated, New Picture was the top production company in the industry, and Zhang Weiping was also the top producer in the industry.

But now, after leaving Lao Mouzi, New Picture has never recovered, and it can't even launch its film and television investment plan.

Many film and television agencies, led by Huayi and Bona, began to cling to the new picture.

It’s true that “when a whale falls, all things come to life!”

"That's right." Ning Hao suddenly seemed to remember something and reminded: "The contract of that murderous girl Zhou Dongyu is about to expire. I heard that many companies in the industry are contacting her. Why is there no movement from Feiying Emperor? ?”

"I don't like this person."

Chen Fei bluntly said that he had a very bad impression of Zhou Dongyu.

A capable person is proud of his talent.

But it's just a shame for someone who has no ability to put on airs.

"Oh, that's how it is."

Ning Hao did not continue to ask further questions and directly changed the topic:

"The box office of "Xiuchundao 2" is quite good, 545 million yuan, which is a full 376 million more than the first film. It can be regarded as the best-performing movie in the martial arts genre."

"Indeed, Lu Yang is quite talented in martial arts action films."

The crew of "One Man's Martial Arts" would send Chen Fei some on-site shooting clips from time to time, and the producer he sent repeatedly praised Lu Yang's high shooting level and coordination skills.

This kid has been trained and can be entrusted with important tasks.

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Time quickly came to the 2nd, and Chen Fei first received the North American first-day box office results of "The Hunger Games 2".

86.45 million US dollars, successfully surpassing "Men in Black 3" which was just released last week, as well as "Mirror Mirror" and "Snow White and the Huntsman" which were released at the same time, and topped the North American box office rankings for a single day!

Not only did the box office explode on the first day of the opening, but the audience's reputation also exploded.

From IMDB to movie forums, from Twitter to Facebook, you can see the good reviews and compliments left by fans everywhere.

"I personally think it's better than the first one. The film always has a feeling of being powerless to resist, but it keeps fighting, and at the end, it feels like a ray of hope. It's very much my cup of tea."

"Very good! The scene where Katniss uses lightning to break the sky curtain is so cool. The design of the action scene has a feeling of Chinese Kung Fu, and you can even vaguely see the shadow of Jackie Chen."

"I'm looking forward to the third part. I hope those wonderful outdoor fighting scenes can continue to extend. I especially like the heroine's killing of all sides. I hope she can break the rule and successfully gain true freedom!"

With the support of the overwhelming audience word-of-mouth, the box office trend of the movie has been rising all the way. On June 2, it continued to sit firmly at the top of the box office chart with a single-day box office of 107 million US dollars.

After three days of the first weekend, "The Hunger Games 2" continued to grab the box office champion with a score of 253 million US dollars.

"Mirror Mirror" and "Snow White and the Huntsman", which were released at the same time, received 18.12 million US dollars and 56.21 million US dollars respectively.

The former completely crushed the latter two.

Men in Black 3, which has been released for nearly two weeks, is not enough to compete.

There is no doubt that the second sequel of The Hunger Games has been a great success again!

After a sigh of relief, Chen Fei turned his attention to the domestic market.

At this time, the box office results of the first three days of the weekend of "The Monkey King: Hero is Back" were also released.

The first day pre-sale + on-site tickets totaled 140 million yuan, the second day 107 million yuan, the third day 91.37 million yuan...

The total of the first three days of the weekend was 338 million yuan!

The movies released at the same time, such as "Hugo", "For You", "Mirror Mirror", "The Magic Pirates", "37", "Run Away", "Love Island", "One Night After", "Submarine 2" and so on, were all abused miserably!

In this box office battle from June 1st to 3rd, "The Monkey King: Hero is Back" successfully fought a bloody road!

Looking around, domestic social software such as Douban, Maoyan, Weibo, and Tieba are all full of praise and good reviews!

"Passersby go in, die-hard fans come out! In the show I was in, almost everyone was reluctant to leave after the movie ended. Everyone was willing to listen to the ending song, and they said they were not satisfied or exclaimed "Is this really a domestic animation?"

"This is the first time I want to boost the box office for a "domestic animation". This is a Hollywood-style heroic myth story belonging to China, which makes people laugh and cry. The exquisite pictures have begun to move closer to internationalization!"

"The integration of traditional elements, the interest of character settings, although not perfect, but the flaws do not cover the merits. We have finally ushered in the "Spring of Chinese Animation". This is the only domestic movie that I am willing to go to the cinema to watch twice.

"Just to support those who are truly willing to contribute to Chinese animation art and Chinese traditional culture, "Journey to the West: Hero is Back", I just want to say: I finally waited for you, fortunately we didn't give up. ”

“In this world, besides Transformers, Spider-Man, and Iron Man, there is an even more awesome hero called Sun Wukong!”

In the past two days, Chen Fei received too many calls from China.

There are CEOs of major production companies who want to invest in the second part of "Journey to the West: Hero is Back", there are also praises from the Film Bureau, and many animation practitioners recommend themselves...

No one thought that the first domestic animation film invested and produced by Feiyue Film and Television would achieve such excellent box office results!

Just when everyone thought that "Assassin Spring Blade 2" was already the leader of domestic films in the first half of 2012, a domestic animation suddenly emerged and broke through the siege!

This is so exciting!

“According to the current box office trend, it is estimated that breaking 1 billion will not be a problem. "

Han Sanping called, her tone full of resentment.

He remembered that when this animated film was just being prepared, he chose to ignore it when he heard that the investment was only 30 million!

Now, the box office has exploded!

In just three days, as a producer and producer, Feiyue Film and Television has made at least more than 100 million in profit!

If the box office successfully exceeds 1 billion, just relying on this movie, Feiyue Film and Television's revenue has exceeded the results of China Film in the first half of the year.

Thinking of this, Han Sanping regretted it so much that his intestines almost turned green.

"What is your next plan? Continue to launch the sequel to "The Return of the Great Sage"? Or..."

"For the time being, I am not going to continue to launch the sequel. It may involve new themes and stories. "

Chen Fei thought of the "Big Fish and Begonia" rewarded by the system. He has already given the script to Yang Yu. If nothing unexpected happens, it will be submitted for review in a few days.

"This time, you must remember to bring China Film!"

"Hey?" Chen Fei was immediately amused and teased: "Don't you look down on this small production with only tens of millions of investment?"

"Yes, I look up to it now..."

Han Sanping has already risked her old face.

The investment is only tens of millions, but the box office revenue can be expected to be more than one billion. If he misses this opportunity, he will not be able to forgive himself!

But at this time, Chen Fei's eyes turned slightly, and he suddenly thought of another script in the script library: "Investment is OK, but I have a condition."

"You tell me."

"I want to invite you to play a role."

"What role? A guest appearance? That's no problem, you can call me anytime..." Han Sanping agreed without thinking.

Chen Fei grinned, and a malicious expression appeared on his face: "Then it's settled! I'll contact you when the time comes. The character is not complicated, you can just play it yourself."

"No problem." Han Sanping agreed happily.

After hanging up the phone, a burst of laughter suddenly rang out in the studio.

"Zuoshandiao... Hehe..."

At this moment, Chen Fei seemed to have imagined the scene where Han Sanping looked depressed after getting the script. It must be very funny!

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