Bright Star Road [Entertainment]

Thrillers and horror films are basically the types of commercial films that all film companies will produce, and a large part of the debut works of many directors are thrillers or horror films.But it's just such a type of film, with mediocre box office and mediocre word-of-mouth, that is, to fool movie audiences who are really bored during the off-season of movies.Occasionally, one or two films that rely on a large amount of blood to stimulate the audience may be able to be screened in the second round of theaters for a long time, and then sell the TV rights and DVD rights, which can be regarded as a golden baby.However, "Chain Saw" produced by Li Wei's studio turned the thriller into a turnaround this time. It not only won a very high box office, but also received excellent reviews in word of mouth. Some people believe that "Saw" created a subgenre of thrillers, some people call this subgenre "psychological thriller".

Compared with ordinary thrillers, psychological thrillers do not rely on blood plasma and sensory stimulation to scare the audience, but instead use music, dialogue and other content to hint the audience, so as to achieve the purpose of psychologically scaring the audience.Compared with ordinary thrillers, psychological thrillers do not have excessive picture rendering. If they are properly controlled, the rating of the movie can be reduced to "15 ban", or even "12 ban".This means that the film can attract more young audiences.

In China, the main audience for movies is still young people, so many movie companies are eager to get a lower rating.However, the main prop in "Chain Saw" is still a chainsaw, so the plasma shot is still inevitable. Coupled with a large number of stump shots, the rating will naturally be higher.But someone inquired that Li Wei's studio will have a "Midnight Ring" series and "The Grudge" series similar to "Saw" next year, which will be released one after another.

According to the outline of the script revealed so far, these two series of movies do not have any plasma and residual limbs, so it is very likely to get the "15 ban" rating.Although everyone can't judge the future of psychological thrillers for the time being, major film companies have begun to contact familiar screenwriters to prepare such scripts.If next year's "Midnight Ring" or "The Grudge" can be successful, then everyone will take advantage of the trend to release psychological thrillers to share a piece of cake with Li Wei's studio.

"The success of "Saw" this time means that our long-established "Midnight Ring" series and "The Grudge" series can be officially shot." Li Wei looked at the latest "Saw" briefing, in the high-level system It was suggested at the meeting.

"This time we have recruited three filmmakers from Dongying Country, one screenwriter and two directors, and we can hand over these two films to them for a try. Director Liu Han, I will trouble you to be the producer at that time, and help them make Control the style of the movie. Dongying movies do have their own characteristics in terms of details and atmosphere, but a big problem is that their movie plots are too procrastinated. If this kind of movie is made into a DVD, there may be no problem, but it can be seen in theaters. There is a big problem with the release. After they get used to our rhythm and style, let them shoot independently."

Li Wei is very happy that the company can find directors and screenwriters from Dongying to join. After all, DreamWorks will be globalized in the future, and directors from many countries can make the film style more international.

"I think it's okay. "The Ring" and "The Grudge" have been in the screenwriting room for two years, right? This doesn't fit our style at all. We are the company that will shoot the script as soon as it comes out." He Zhao said with a smile, "In the past, Mr. Li always said that if there is no director with a suitable style, he would rather not shoot. Let's not shoot these two scripts. Kylin Pictures always thinks about it. Now we are finally going to shoot by ourselves. , I don't have to be tempted by them. By the way, how about the "Transformers" cartoon?"

"Don't worry about the animation, everything is going very smoothly, and the progress is already much ahead of schedule." The person in the production department replied.

This cartoon is co-produced by Dreamworks Animation Company, Kirin Animation Company, and the animation production department of Kirin Entertainment Company. Besides, Li Wei has already completed the character design and plot setting, and the special effects studio has also completed the transformation. Special effects, so the production speed of the whole animation is still very fast.

"We have already got the samples of the first ten episodes, and we can release them after confirmation, which basically meets the needs of the first two weeks of screenings. And according to our contact, Asian Television Network is willing to broadcast at 6 pm every day from Monday to Friday. We will be offered a half-hour slot at 6 p.m., and the Kaleidoscope Network will also be simulcast at [-] p.m. Monday through Friday."

Terrestrial TV networks generally rarely provide strip time slots for cartoons. This time, Asian Television Network is an exception. Of course, it is also related to DreamWorks Animation's abandonment of time slot advertising.The Kaleidoscope TV network is currently the TV network with the highest ratings throughout the day in China, and it is also the children's TV network with the highest ratings during prime time.

Li Wei nodded, quite satisfied with the newly formed home entertainment company.Generally speaking, a film and television company has a production department, a distribution department, and a home entertainment department. These three departments are the core of a film and television company.Not much to say about the production department, the distribution department is mainly for theaters and film festivals; the home entertainment department is mainly for TV, DVDs, games, peripherals, etc.However, as the importance of games and peripheral content became more and more important, the game and peripheral content was taken out to form the so-called interactive department and copyright management department.

DreamWorks has its own copyright management department, while the interactive department is incorporated in the copyright management department.Because Li Wei did not intend to use the name of DreamWorks to make games, but intended to authorize the production of the Kylin Game Business Group under the Kylin Interactive Entertainment in the name of the copyright management department.Although the home entertainment department is still in its infancy, it is a victory to establish cooperative relations with major domestic terrestrial TV networks and top cable channels. The home entertainment department is really something to look forward to.

After confirming the schedule with the TV station, Li Wei also sent a promotional video to them to promote it. There are a total of three promotional videos for the "Transformers" cartoon. The first one mainly shows the background setting of the whole cartoon. Li Wei used a space opera-style shooting technique to show everyone a war story in outer space.This cartoon not only attracted the attention of boys, but also attracted the interest of many adult men.The second and third cartoons mainly show the characters of Autobots and Decepticons, and their deformation images are the focus.Accompanied by the metallic music, the robots on the TV appear to be mechanically deformed.This kind of cartoon full of mechanical sense and fighting as the main content is full of male hormones, so many boys have listed the upcoming New Year's gifts as those robots on TV.

Although the toy company contacted by Li Wei has produced many Transformers toys, these toys will not be released so soon.According to Li Wei's plan, after halfway through the broadcast of the first season, the supply will be slowly laid out from big cities.Moreover, the supply has to adopt hunger marketing, and it is absolutely not easy for children to get it.In particular, some special models will be made into limited editions, and they will never be released in the future except for certain commemorative years.Even if reprints are sold, there will be a certain difference from the limited editions, and these things must be made into collections.

After two weeks of publicity, the "Transformers" cartoon finally started broadcasting along with the children's winter vacation.Although the ratings of the first episode were only 1%, everyone was satisfied with the ratings considering that it was an unpopular schedule at [-] o'clock.And "Transformers" did not let everyone look forward to it for a long time. Since the second episode, the ratings have been rising steadily.

As of Friday, the ratings of the "Transformers" cartoon have infinitely approached 2%. 2% is quite a good rating for a prime-time TV series, let alone an unpopular cartoon?Seeing such ratings, Li Wei has some confidence in the box office of the live-action movie, so it is time for the filming of the live-action movie to enter the studio.

"The ratings of the "Transformers" cartoon must have been seen by everyone, so should the serialization of the comic version be placed in the "Shounen Comics Weekly"? Or in the two affiliated monthly magazines "Shounen Comics Plus" or "Shounen Comics Plus" What about Manga Extra?"

In the Qilin club, the serialization of the comic version of "Transformers" is currently under discussion. The cartoons and comics of "Transformers" are actually asynchronous. The comic version is strictly speaking a prequel to the cartoon, telling the story of the early leaders of Transformers.Because of this, many editors expressed doubts about the popularity of this prequel comic.

Because compared to the style of bloody battles in the animated version, the manga version is more sci-fi and scheming in nature.Originally, many editors suggested to serialize in "Youth Manga Monthly", but the main viewership group of cartoons are teenagers, so they decided to put them in "Shounen Manga Weekly".However, "Shounen Comic Weekly" has only serialized 20 comics. Unless some comics are withdrawn, "Transformers" has no chance to be published.

On the contrary, "Shounen Manga Plus" and "Shounen Manga Extra" do not have such serialization restrictions, and "Shounen Manga Extra" usually serializes works transferred from "Shounen Manga Weekly", which is the kind of works that are not supported by the audience but are edited works recognized by them; and "Shounen Manga Extra" is for those works that are temporarily not up to the serialization level of "Shounen Manga Weekly".

"I think it is more appropriate to put it on "Shounen Manga Extra". After all, is it too risky to put it on "Shounen Manga Weekly" without the approval of our readers? If it is published in Comics Plus, wouldn't that discredit President Li as the original script?" An editor asked.

Hearing the editor's worries, the editorial department was also a little worried.After all, the previous serial works of "Transformers" and "Shounen Comics Weekly" are completely different in style, and the editorial department does not think this work can be recognized by readers.After everyone's discussion, this manga was moved to "Shounen Manga Extra".In order not to let Li Wei misunderstand, Qilin Club also specially sent an email to Li Wei to explain.

Li Wei laughed when he saw the explanation email, and instead replied, "Transformers is indeed inconsistent with the previous style of "Shounen Comic Weekly". Can we consider making another comic publication? Similar to "Transformers" Comics in the style of comics are gathered together?"

In Li Wei's view, this kind of European and American manga should indeed be published separately, otherwise it would be strange to put the real juvenile manga together.

The author has something to say: Recently, because the computer broke down, I accompanied my mother while watching TV while coding.

The Hunan TV drama channel is broadcasting "The Return of a Thousand Gold".

I don't understand why irrelevant people come and leave whenever they want in the private hospital where the rich live.

What's more, if they do bad things, they haven't been monitored?

The most frightening thing is that the wealthy daughter is said to be well-educated and talented.As a result, when it rained, I rushed out to prevent the heavy rain from soaking the flowers. Don't smart children know that flowers need watering?Is rain nothing to flowers?

There was also the vicious supporting actress who lied to the hostess less than 10 meters away, saying that she was besieged by bad guys in a bar.But the heroine actually believed it, and the supporting actress was right in front of her!This is still a college student!

The most important thing is that the female supporting role is too fake, her acting skills are even worse than the mass road show!