prodigal director

Chapter 192 "Mr." Premiere 【Wan Geng Subscription】

"Inception" set.

In the spacious and luxurious dining room, there is a long and large dining table.

A man who looks like a successful person is eating western food with a knife and fork.

In front of him, there were two men in suits and leather shoes sitting in a triangular shape on the left and right sides. One of them, a man with vicissitudes of beard, suddenly said, "What is the most powerful parasite? Is it bacteria? Is it a virus? Or intestinal A worm?"

The other man raised his forehead and wanted to interrupt the disgusting description.

But the bearded man ignored the other party and emphasized: "It's an idea!"

The successful man who was eating looked up at him, and he continued, "It's so tenacious and contagious! Once an idea forms in your mind, it's almost impossible to erase!

As long as the idea is whole and understood, it's deeply rooted there, somewhere in the brain. "

The successful man who was eating western food finally spoke, he said calmly: "So people like you come to steal?"

Another man replied: "Yes! In a dream, your consciousness will let down your vigilance! In this way, your thoughts will be stolen. This is called Dream Stealing!"

shooting scene.

The staff who haven't read the script and don't know the story of the movie finally know why this movie is called "Inception"!

During this filming process, I told them the answer directly!
Hao Huan interrupted at this time: "Old Zhang, can you be more graceful and slow when you eat? I feel that my acting skills are too good and I feel that I can pass it in one go, so I want to make several mistakes and eat more, right? !"

In "Inception", actor Zhang Hua plays Saito as a villain, just like when he played the black boss in "Infernal Affairs", and the funniest thing is that in these two movies, he has to eat Hao Huan reprimanded him for the process of eating, which made people laugh a bit.

This is the second time for Zhang Hua to cooperate with Hao Huan, so he is used to Hao Huan's strictness, so he could only say with a smile: "It's nothing, I rarely eat Western food with a knife and fork, so it may be a bit awkward, let's go." I'll be fine!"

"Give him a piece of beef!"

Hao Huan ordered, and then started the second shooting.

After the progress was recovered, the star actor who played the male lead said: "Mr. Saito, we can train your subconscious mind to defend yourself. Even the best Dream Stealer can't do anything!"

Zhang Hua cut the steak and asked dismissively, "Why are you so sure?"

The male actor replied: "Because I am the best dream stealer! I know how to spy on your thoughts and find out your secrets! I have mastered the tricks and I can teach you to make you sleep even when you are asleep. , and will never let down our guard!”

Zhang Hua took a sip from the goblet containing red wine, and the leading actor also picked up a glass of red wine, stood up and said, "Listen, if you want me to help! Then you have to trust me completely and have no reservations about me." !
I get to know your mind better than your wife, your counselor, or anyone else!
If this is a dream, there is a safe with your secrets in it, and I must know what is in the safe, and for that you must be completely honest with me. "

Zhang Hua snorted and showed a disdainful smile. He wiped his mouth with a napkin, stood up, walked outside and said, "Have a good night, I will consider your proposal!"

"Crack!"

Hao Huan interrupted and said: "Overall, it's okay, but you need to improve your mood, especially Lao Zhang, the contemptuous smile and expression before and after you got up and left were not obvious, and it was a little bit worse. smell!"

Zhang Hua walked back, and said contemptuously, "Then is my expression obvious now?"

Hao Huan sneered: "Yes! It seems that you are contemptuous of me from the bottom of your heart!"

Zhang Hua was embarrassed: "I didn't! I knew everything about it. It was a performance! It didn't come from the heart!"

"I don't care about you! Anyway, if you can't react with this expression later, it means you feel contempt for me!"

Hao Huan ordered Zhang Hua to arrange food again, and started the third shooting.

As an assistant director and assistant, Wang Lexin, besides being in charge of other equipment, her most important task is to learn how to make movies from Hao Huan.

Because Hao Huan asked her very seriously, asking her to be inseparable, to follow her side intently, not to let go of any details of Hao Huan's directorship, and to study Hao Huan's directing experience seriously.

Therefore, Wang Lexin is now like a serious elementary school student, sitting next to Hao Huan, staring at the place Hao Huan is staring at, remembering that every time Hao Huan picks on the faults of the actors, it will be convenient for her to go when she is making movies. Find fault.

"Inception" was filmed so intensely and excitingly.

Those explosion scenes, those scenes where the world is collapsing and need to be shot in the space of the screen, are not easy to complete.

In order to pursue perfection, in order to pursue a real and shocking visual impact!
The explosion scene, it was a real explosion!Instead of thinking about the special effects of the explosion in the later stage, it will be fine.

Therefore, the difficulty of filming is indeed as Hao Huan thought and said, far exceeding the previous films.

Wang Lexin finally understood why Hao Huan said that she had to co-direct this movie, otherwise Hao Huan would have to direct it by himself, and he would be exhausted!Besides, besides Wang Lexin, he couldn't find another director who could understand him and his style.

This is why he said that "Inception" needed Wang Lexin to cooperate with him as the director.

Time passed nervously and busily with the filming of "Inception".

……

A month later.

The post-production of "Mr. Zombie" has been completed. After the finished film was produced, it was directly arranged to be submitted for review.

noon.

On the set of "Inception", the actors and staff went to get their lunch boxes and took a one-hour lunch break.

This time is Hao Huan and Wang Lexin's real big-budget movie besides "Horror Cruise"!The cast, crew, filming equipment, props set, etc. were all used more than in previous films!
And their sweat and energy are much more than before!
Wang Lexin came over with two lunch boxes and asked, "Boss, which one do you want?"

Hao Huan picked one at random and started to eat it. Wang Lexin gave Hao Huan the braised pork and said, "I have a lot of meat, so I'll share some with you."

Hao Huan hummed: "It's your self-consciousness."

After Wang Lexin picked up a few pieces of braised pork for Hao Huan, he started to eat and asked, "Boss, will the filming be finished in another month?"

"It shouldn't take more than a month."

Hao Huan ate the braised pork and said, "Mr. Zombie seems to be sent for review today, right?"

"Well, it has been submitted for trial this morning."

Said, Wang Lexin regretted: "It's a pity that I've been too busy recently, and I didn't have a chance to watch the finished film."

A few days ago, Hao Huan checked the finished film that had not yet been subtitled, and said, "Don't worry, I took a quick look at the company when I returned to the company a few days ago, and the editing and special effects are fine. This movie won't hit the street!"

Wang Lexin excitedly said: "Really? Can it surpass "Painted Skin"?"

"Hard to say."

Hao Huan analyzed: "The box office of "Painted Skin" itself is quite high. I thought it would be good to get 30 billion, but it just reached 40 billion in the end.

The movie "Mr. Zombie" can be said to be the pioneering work of zombie movies. No one has made this type of movie before, so there will be many uncertainties.

Perhaps the box office will explode, surpassing the box office of "Returning Soul Night" and reaching the 50 billion level.

Or maybe the box office is mediocre, only a few hundred million, or just like "Happy Ghost", it just broke through 10 billion. "

"Oh……"

Wang Lexin took a big mouthful of rice and said with a puffed face: "It's not a loss. A box office of several hundred million is very good. Anyway, the production cost is only 7000 million yuan."

Hao Huan tapped Wang Lexin on the head with the tip of his chopsticks, and said, "Is it okay to be a little promising! What do you mean it's good if it can have a box office of several hundred million? "Happy Ghost" has a production cost of more than 1000 million, and the box office is 11 billion, okay! "

Wang Lexin glared suddenly, and said fiercely: "My mother said you can't hit people with chopsticks! It would be unlucky!"

Hao Huan said: "I was often hit by my dad with chopsticks when I was a child, why didn't you see me unlucky?"

Wang Lexin said: "It's just unlucky for a moment, but it's not unlucky for life."

"Superstition! Enjoy your meal!"

Hao Huan's tone should be more disgusting and disgusting.

After lunch.

After the lunch break, the movie continued to shoot. At this time, Wang Lexin complained to Hao Huan, covering his stomach: "Look! My stomach hurts! It's all because you hit my head with chopsticks!"

"You ate something wrong yourself, and you blame me for your bad stomach? Show some face!"

Hao Huan said speechlessly: "If you want to go to the toilet, go to the toilet quickly. If it hurts too much, take medicine and take a rest!"

"Then wait for me."

Wang Lexin clutched her stomach and left. Hao Huan chuckled, waiting for you?It’s as if I couldn’t make the movie without you!
"Prepare!"

Hao Huan started to shoot. Without Wang Lexin, he can still shoot well, but he will be much tired.

After half an hour.

"Pause! Touch up your makeup!"

Hao Huan ordered, and then looked around, did Wang Lexin's stupid pig fall into the toilet?It's been so long and I haven't come back!
He took the mobile phone and was about to make a call to Wang Lexin, but found that the mobile phone was muted. Wang Lexin sent a message ten minutes ago: "Boss, the toilet is out of paper!"

Hao Huan almost spat out a mouthful of old blood, and he replied: "You won't call someone else when you run out of paper! Why are you sending me a message!"

Wang Lexin immediately replied with four words: "I dare not shout..."

When Hao Huan was filming, everyone was silent, all phones had to be muted, and no one was allowed to make any noise, so Hao Huan knew why Wang Lexin, an idiot, didn't dare to shout.

He said to a female employee speechlessly: "Go to the toilet and give Wang Lexin a tissue, this stupid thing has no paper in the toilet and can't get out!"

puff!
When everyone heard this, they couldn't help laughing.

No wonder it took more than half an hour to shoot, and I didn't see Wang Lexin, a follower, following Hao Huan. It turned out that he was trapped in the toilet!

Later, the female employee came back and said: "Director Hao, Director Wang, she went to the toilet for too long and her legs cramped. She said she needed to take a moment before she could come out."

"Oh, I see."

Hao Huan had nothing to say, he took out his phone and sent two words to Wang Lexin: "Stupid pig!"

This is really not afraid of opponents like gods, but teammates like pigs!
Wang Lexin deserves to be the one who has been given the title of "Stupid Pig" by him!

After 5 minutes, Wang Lexin came back limping, and everyone couldn't help laughing, but Wang Lexin found that everyone knew that she had no paper in the toilet, and after her leg cramped, her little face was as ripe as a peach Like!

Hao Huan shouted: "Stop laughing, we're ready to start shooting!"

Wang Lexin walked over to sit down in embarrassment, Hao Huan couldn't help but curse again: "Stupid pig."

……

Two days later.

"Mr. Zombie" passed the review.

Although there are many horrifying plots and scenes in this movie, Hao Huan directly drove the development of domestic films against the sky with his own strength, and played a non-negligible role in promoting and influencing domestic films.

Therefore, the current review standards are much looser than before. Otherwise, if the standard for cutting "Orphan's Grudge" was followed, then "Mr. Zombie" would definitely have to cut a lot of scenes.

The movie is now in review.

There are only 10 days left until Qingming Festival.

This movie fits the atmosphere of the Qingming Festival very well. There are not many movies released at this time, so the competition is not fierce at all. The film scheduling rate can be randomly arranged to between 40% and 50%.

The premise is that the popularity of this movie must be worthy of this film schedule!
The next day, noon.

"Mr. Zombie" started to be promoted, and this time the promotion focused on the Internet. Wang Lexin had to follow Hao Huan to film "Inception", so naturally he didn't have time to lead the crew to promote offline or participate in the program to promote.

However, Wang Lexin is now a well-known director in China, so he only needs to publicize and expose it online, and the publicity effect will yield unexpected gains.

It's just that this time it's really a bit of a rush!

The pre-sale channel opened at 10:12 in the morning. By 120:[-] noon, the pre-sale box office reached [-] million yuan!

Wang Lexin was eating lunch on the set, her heart was feeling cold, and she said wronged: "Boss, the pre-sale box office seems to be overwhelmed..."

"How much?" Hao Huan asked.

"It's only 120 million yuan in two and a half hours."

Wang Lexin didn't like anything to eat, and suddenly lost her appetite. She felt that she was going to be sprayed as a bad director just like Hao Huan's first filming of "Age of Fright".

Hao Huan ate his meal and said: "Maybe it's because of the lack of publicity and the fact that the movie is classified as horror, so it's normal that the pre-sale box office is a little lower. Let's wait and see again in the evening! What if it suddenly becomes popular at night?

And the movie hasn't premiered yet, so it's not up to the pre-sale box office to decide whether to hit the street or not!Just relax, I won't do anything to you if you hit the streets anyway, the worst thing is to punish you to write a long-lost self-criticism, and then call you a stupid pig or something! "

"Oh..." Wang Lexin pouted. According to the situation, it feels like the 9-day pre-sale box office of "Mr. Zombie" will not even reach 2000 million yuan by then!

After finishing today's filming of "Inception", Hao Huan drove Wang Lexin back to rest.

At this time, Wang Lexin finally had time to watch the pre-sale box office of "Mr. Zombie".

From 10 am to now, 8 and a half hours have passed, and the pre-sale box office is only 230 million yuan!

Wang Lexin wanted to cry: "It's been more than 8 hours, and it's only 230 million yuan."

Hao Huan said: "It's a bit of a rush! I am the screenwriter, producer and action director of this movie. It stands to reason that my popularity should bring a lot of box office!

Besides, you stupid pig is now one of the most popular directors in China. Under normal circumstances, the current box office should reach about 1000 million. "

Wang Lexin looked at Weibo and said: "Under the promotional video of the movie, many netizens said that watching the promotional video is not good, and it is also scary. They don't want to watch it. Everyone must think so, so not many people buy tickets."

"Forget about the pre-sale box office, after the premiere is over, it will be revealed whether it is a dragon or a worm!"

Anyway, Hao Huan has confidence in himself, and he also has confidence in Wang Lexin. Now that stupid pig like Wang Lexin has no confidence in himself, that's why the pre-sale box office affects his mentality.

After all, she is still a weak woman!
Can't stand the wind and waves!

Weak pig!

Hao Huan secretly despised it in his heart. He was much calmer now, and he was not at all worried that the box office of "Mr. Zombie" would hit the street.

……

The next morning.

The 24-hour pre-sale box office of "Mr. Zombie" is only 420 million yuan. At this rate, the 9-day pre-sale box office can only reach 3000 million yuan at most.

"Cheer up! Or I'll beat you!"

Hao Huan warned Wang Lexin, who was a little depressed after watching the pre-sale box office, that this stupid pig can write all his thoughts on his face!

Wang Lexin cheered up and said, "I won't watch it. I'll watch it after the movie premieres!"

"That's right! Stupid pig!"

Hao Huan continued to start filming "Inception".

……

After 8 days.

"Mr. Zombie" ushered in its premiere. Before the premiere, the pre-sale box office was only 2373 million yuan. This result, compared to Hao Huan and Wang Lexin's previous film, it was really a hit!
At this time, before watching the premiere on the Internet, a group of people have already posted comments and predictions, saying that the box office of "Mr. Zombie" is only 2 million yuan.

Some people even predict that the box office of "Mr. Zombie" may only be 1.5 million yuan in the end.

All in all, they all agreed that this zombie-themed horror film must have hit the street. The production cost was 7000 million yuan, and if the cost of publicity was 3 million yuan, then the film would cost nearly [-] million yuan to make money back. So Hao Huan is out of luck this time!

Even the theaters are disappointed with "Mr. Zombie" at the moment.

With such a high screening rate, what the hell are you doing at the pre-sale box office?

If I had known earlier, I would not have arranged so many sessions!Fortunately, so many games have half of the seats vacant, it is a waste!

However, when the premiere of "Mr. Zombie" is over, when the ratings and movie reviews of the ticketing platform come out!Those who pay attention to this movie suddenly find that something is wrong!
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