The Best Director

"Lionsgate Films launches "Ghost Story" to see Yang return to take charge of the horror apartment."

When the week of November 5th to November 11th has become a thing of the past, "Saw 2", which was in its second week of release, failed to retain the top spot on the weekly box office list. It received 28.94 million in 3,345 theaters, a total of 28.94 million in North America. The box office soared to RMB 10,000, and is expected to exceed RMB 100 million when it is released; the new film "Human Mo", which cost RMB 10,000, did not disappoint Disney, with a box office of RMB 10,000 in 3,933 theaters this week. Pixar, the producer, has continued its reputation as a premium product, with a Rotten Tomatoes freshness score of 97 %/95%, and the audience liking rate was a relatively low 67%.

It is worth mentioning that the live-action animated film "The Polar Express" was carefully created by the great director Robert Isawa Makis at a cost of 165 million. This epoch-making first Imax-3D feature film in history was released in November. , the producer and distributor Warner Bros. arranged for it to open in North American theaters. However, there were only less than 3D and Imax big screens, which means that most of the audience watched it on 35-ordinary film and got ordinary vision. The effects, such as motion capture, performance capture, Imax-3d effects... are all embarrassing and self-admiring.

Maybe it’s because the film itself has many problems, or maybe it’s far from reaching that timing. It only received a very unsatisfactory result of $10,000 per theater on Wednesday and Thursday, which is a national holiday for Veterans Day. Only $2 was recorded, which was worse than the Shanjia 2115 of "Shark Tale" which was released in its sixth week, even though the latter was released for 7 days. What makes Warner feel even worse is that with 56%/54% freshness and 65% likes, if there is no miracle next week, it can almost be declared that "The Polar Express" is a loss-making film.

Massive publicity that spared no expense, the best partners of Robert Zemegis, Tom Hanks, and "definitely a big success" Imax-3d... "The Polar Express" was simply a slap in the face, even *** "Fireflies", whose scenes were shot on AX film, are all implicated to a certain extent. It seems that there is no difference at all between movies shot on AX film. Instead, I spent a lot of money in vain.

"3D, Imax-3D will be the trend in the future.", "I can shoot! I like rushing."

In the first half of the year, "The Hollywood Reporter" exclusively interviewed the three major directors Robert Zemeckis, George Lucas, and Wang Yang at the est conference. They all expressed their views and expectations on new works and the future of industrial technology. They vowed to 3d at the beginning Robert Zemeckis, a technology geek who is "the trend within the trend", has already faced Waterloo. Even if he has the idea of ​​"continuing to explore digital technology, capture technology, and launch more new works," he doesn't know if there will be any company investment. ; George Lucas, a hard-core digital man who didn't understand what 3D is, was busy working on "Star Wars Episode III"; Miraculous Yang, a middle-class man who had already tried Imax film, also said he wanted to shoot 3D with NG at that time. Watch now With the results of "The Polar Express", the media and film producers are thinking that "Black Hole" might even be thinking of quitting!

"None of them are real people, you get some special effects,

But visuals would be no fun if they lost authenticity.

"M. Rex Reed, New York Observer "If I were a child, I'd see a nightmare. ” 1—Jeff Pevene, Toronto Star…

"Robert, no matter what, my views on 3D are the same as yours. It is a trend." At this time, Wang Yang was on the phone with Robert Isawa Mikis, discussing why the "Polar Express" situation was embarrassing and other topics. Wang Yang said frankly He is not optimistic about the market prospects of live-action cartoons, but % unswervingly advocates 3D and Imax-3d; Robert Izemirgis will naturally not give up lightly. He will not return to live-action movies or animated movies for the time being. The exploration of motion performance capture technology continues.

With his status and connections, as long as "Polar Express" is not completely finished, he can still find investment from big companies; Zemeckis also knows that Flame Films has no investment intentions. Of course, he understands that Yi is not a big company, let alone * The numbers that ** companies randomly smash will "trap" big companies from a moral perspective, unless this young man is very optimistic about live-action animation, but he is only interested in motion performance capture and Imax-3d.

"Yang, I don't want to think so much anymore, until no one invests in me, haha!" Robert Zemeckis is still very optimistic, his hearty laughter is not affected by the failure of the opening at all, he has full opinions, and he feels He asked with interest: "Then why do you make 3D movies?"

After years of contact and conversation, Wang Yang knew very well that Robert Zemeckis had long been indifferent, or in other words, obsessed. He was focused on motion performance capture technology and live-action animation. The former now has successful examples of films such as "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy and "District 9". In the future, there will also be films such as "King Kong", "Avatar", and "War for the Planet of the Apes", with their gorillas, Nazis, etc. The beauty can be captured vividly on the screen by real people; however, the results of films such as "Monster House", "Beowulf", "A Christmas Carol", "Mars" and "The Adventures of Tintin" turned out to be unflattering to both parties. None went as expected.

Technology and story are not the main reasons. The key is that the audience does not like this form of performance. Maybe the time has not come yet. Knowing that Zemeckis could still happily immerse himself in the world of live-action animation for many years, Wang Yang didn't give much advice. He thought that if he liked live-action animation, he would probably do the same, but he really didn't have much interest. The charm of cartoons is often not enough. Live-action performances are needed to increase the number, just like "Up" and other films. As for 3D movies, Wang Yang thought: "Not in the past two years, there are too few 3D theaters."

"Those theater companies are slower than a snail." Robert Zemeckis's tone was extremely dissatisfied. He and Warner lobbied many theater companies to update projection equipment and build more 3D cinemas, but no one was willing to cooperate, otherwise there would be A 3D screen? There will definitely be another scene in The Polar Express.

"There is no way, but they will do it in the future." Wang Yang could only comfort him a few words, and said seriously: "Robert, when I make Imax-3D movies in the future, I hope you can provide me with some technical help." Zemeckis He smiled enthusiastically: "Okay, of course, I'm very happy! Young people, don't be bound by the reputation of film critics, shoot the episodes you want to shoot, and do what you want to do." Wang Yang nodded - don't be afraid, don't be afraid , he smiled and said, "Yes, I will!" Just timing matters. Zemeckis changed the subject and said, "How is the editing of "Firefly" going?" I watched the trailer and it was very exciting. "...

With the release of the trailer of "Firefly", which has aroused great expectations among moviegoers, Rotten Tomatoes recently launched the latest special issue "Comprehensive Review of Ung-ang's Film Works". It seems that Wang Yang is retiring or the era is ending. Many people who browse this special topic Movie fans have evoked many memories. Not counting unreleased works, the 24-year-old Miracle Young has directed 8 movies, 11 movie scripts, and been a producer of 13 movies, including 9 executive producers and 4 participating producers. plan.

"Monster is no longer enough to describe M Hanna," Hanna said. With two youngest Oscars, a Golden Globe and numerous nominations, the directing box office averaged 477.5 million. She is humorous and sunny. It is not difficult to understand why Miracle Young is so popular. It will be so high. No one knows what will happen to "Firefly", which is full of doubts. It may succeed or fail. The special pk "Which Wang Yang's directorial work do you like best" expressed the wishes of the movie fans.

Although this kind of PS is unfair, because 8 movies are almost in 8 genres, and even "Las Vegas Part 2" is so different, a group of movie fans still conducted multiple votes, and the "favorite" Currently, "The Hangover" and "High School Musical" are in the lead, and "The Devil Wears Prada" is at the bottom. "The Devil Wears Prada" is at the bottom. The top three "most profound" are "District 9" and "The Pursuit of Happyness." ", "Juno", and "The Devil Wears Prada" were at the bottom; "The Most Socially Influential" were "The Ghost Story", "High School Musical", and "The Devil Wears Prada" were at the bottom again, and moviegoers thought they couldn't afford it. Those who are on a diet will continue to be unable to afford famous brands, those who are on a diet will continue to be on a diet, and those who are disdainful will continue to be disdainful...

"I hate the way you talk on stage, and I hate your movies. I hate the way you tell ghost stories, and I hate your singing and dancing." User Rotten Candy seems to have taken a page from Heath Ledger in Firefly After getting inspiration, I rewrote the sonnet "Ten Things I Hate About You" in the comments without much rhyme: "I hate the blessings you strive for, I hate you for hitting my heart. I hate you so much Scream, I hate you until I get pregnant. I hate that you are always so funny, I hate that you are always so cool! I hate that you make me laugh, and I hate you even more for making me cry. I hate your wife’s beautiful clothes, hate Your firefly. But what I hate most is that I cannot hate you, not at all, not at all."

If this was not a compliment from an ordinary user account, but a celebrity wrote it on his blog, that guy and Wang Yang would definitely occupy various entertainment pages the next day. Of course, that wouldn't happen.

Judging from the Rotten Tomatoes voting results, it seems that Young is indeed in a state of regression. The high-grossing "The Devil Wears Prada" was not a big hit personally; he has made three consecutive commercial films that are not very "deep"; although It has boosted Las Vegas tourism, beer sales, and caused a decline in the casino's slot machine sales, but it has not caused a sensation in a long time, even in terms of publicity.

But looking back on Jiang Ye's words in the past, it is true that countless people hate the way Qi Yang tells ghost stories and pseudo-documentary. People who have experienced that "natural phenomenon" will find it difficult to forget "Ghost Chronicles". Lionsgate Films deeply Knowing this, as long as Miracle Yang returns, "Ghost Story" will be able to create miracles.

"What's wrong!? Yang? Jessica?" Joshua walked into the house from the back garden suspiciously. This weekend, the couple invited him to be their guest and went to watch a football match together in the evening. They just chatted in the garden for a while. As they walked into the house to get food, they suddenly heard two frightened and pitiful screams, and then there was no sound. Isn't it possible that someone broke into the house and robbed it? But they all know kung fu! Joshua couldn't help but quicken his pace and shouted, "What's wrong? Is anyone there?"

He walked into the dining room and saw that no one was there. He nervously grabbed a wooden chair, took out a pan, held it in front of him as if facing an enemy, and walked towards the living room: "? Oh my God. ,Danny?! Where have they all gone!"

"..." Wang Yang and Jessica, who were hiding in the corner of the corridor, covered each other's mouths to hold back their laughter. The cameras were already set up. It was up to them whether this method of teasing people would work! After making funny videos of teasing each other many times, the two decided to attack other people as a couple in order to avoid escalating the conflict. Even if these videos are not available online, they are still interesting to watch by yourself.

Joshua, who was advancing cautiously, suddenly noticed something. There was a layer of transparent tape covering the first few steps of the corridor, obviously trying to knock him into the ground! Joshua immediately understood what was going on, put down his defensive tools, shook his head and pouted, quickly went up to tear off the tape, stepped heavily on the floor a few steps, and shouted: "Oh, m—I fell, I fell. !" Sure enough, the couple's laughter sounded from the living room, and Joshua laughed too. Do you want to tease me? Do you think I'm a fool? He strode forward disdainfully: "I tell you, you are so boring!"

"3, 2, 1..." Wang Yang and Jessica, who were leaning against the wall, looked at each other and gestured silently.

Joshua laughed and cursed. Just as he was about to turn the corner, he was suddenly blocked by a force and a thick layer of tape! Angrily, he pulled it off and rolled it into a ball, and continued: "It's useless to me... Oh!!" Before he finished speaking, he was stuck by a very thin film on his face, and his hands were messed up. Tear it apart and yell loudly: "Shit!"

"Hahaha! -" Wang Yang and Jessica high-fived happily, then jumped out and laughed crazily, twisted around and waved to dance in celebration, "High camera! Book, it will change your face in detail The ground was filmed!", "It must be so handsome! Haha!" Looking at these two hateful guys who were about to roll to the ground with laughter, Joshua rushed forward madly: "I will fight with you! I I’m not afraid of you, ah”

The high-definition camera was loaded into the computer image, and the moment Joshua's face on the screen was stuck with the tape, it looked like a flattened pig's head.

"Saw 2" took in 15.68 million in home theaters during its third week of screening from November 12 to 28, and the total box office in North America rose to 93.88 million. It can be called another commercial miracle in film history; but the miracle did not happen in "The Polar Express" ", with a box office of 28.48 million in seven theaters in seven days. Although it ranks second, it will definitely not become a profitable film. The first-ever Imax-3D feature film is quite impressive; "Human Mobilization" Retaining the title with $20,000: The newly released "After Sunset" and "The Ghost Bride" both performed poorly, while "BJ's Diary 2" met expectations.

In his spare time during this period of time, Wang Yang was busy accumulating interesting videos that people collected or uploaded to uTuBe. Of course, some of them were scary and teasing people. After Joshua, Ai Lin, Roland and others became The latest victim was tricked into wanting to beat someone up by the couple's own tricks, which they collected from the Internet. Wang Yang and Jessica were plotting to attack Mark Alba, but they just considered that the consequences might be serious. And never tried.

But what he didn't expect was that Lionsgate once again invited him to restart "The Ghost Story 3" and use the big screen to scare people.

"Yang, can you help me just this time?" Listening to Michael Parsonek's pleading tone on the other side of the phone, Wang Yang could not refuse again without hesitation. This was not the first time he had called, Michael-Parsonek, Jon Phil Timmeier and Tom Oldenburg all had warm invitations. Although he said "no, no, no" at first, they didn't want to give up. They begged and begged over and over again in the past few days to make him start to think about this matter seriously.

Wang Yang knew that Lionsgate would definitely produce "Ghost Chronicles". As an ally, everything was good, and he had no intention of obstructing and embarrassing them. However, directing is absolutely impossible. He has to concentrate on the work of "Firefly", and besides, he has no interest in filming a sequel for the time being. The executive producer doesn't want to do it either. His work is already busy enough, and he doesn't want to lose sight of one thing and lose the other. The screenwriter proposed by Xiangyu Lionsgate And planning and producing, it is really difficult to refuse such hospitality.

It's not Jon Phil Timmeier's "Emotional and Reasonable". For example, "The Ghost Story 3" will not be released on Halloween, but will be released in the second peak season of horror films. If Wang Yang nods Agreed, all aspects of work will be carried out at a high speed. This kind of low-cost horror film is not difficult to produce. It can be scheduled to be released in April 205 as long as the publicity work is done well. But "Magic Yang returns to "The Ghost Story 3" 》"More than any publicity means, people are looking forward to it.

It's not a joint venture between Fire and Lionsgate, and Lionsgate's profit-sharing plan; it's not a waste of time. It's lighter than the workload of producing "Honey" or chief planning "Rush", and it's probably the same as "Brokeback Mountain" Pretty much the same name.

In fact, Wang Yang never wanted "The Amityville Chronicles" to become a mess. When he handed over the sequel filming rights to Lionsgate, he hoped that the series would have a good ending. However, they did not cherish it properly. Regarding the resurrection of "The Amityville Chronicles 3", he He also felt a little moved. If he agreed to this plan, he would never allow "The Ghost Story" to fail commercially, that is, it must be liked by the audience; and the sequel model of a hot rice dish has never received good reviews, and he didn't care.

"Kung Fu Panda", "Brokeback Mountain", and "League of Assassins" are all projects that Wang Yang participated in the planning and other work. Now the post-production of "Brokeback Mountain" has been completed and is just waiting to be scheduled for release; he has taken over "Ghost" Film recording will not increase his workload much.

This cooperation can eliminate the many frictions between Lions Gate and the Flames in recent years and help Lions Gate further develop. Whether it is the future "big plans" of uTuBe online theaters, cable TV networks, or the production business of ***film companies, including the production of some new medium- and low-cost movies by Fm Company, the Flames need strong allies. If** *Film producers fell one after another and only flames remained in the end. It was definitely not worthy of cheering and celebration. Therefore, Mark Slant also repeatedly persuaded Wang Yang that if he could, it would be best to help this time and not to hold grudges about what happened back then.

"Well..." Wang Yang pondered deeply, how could he hold grudges against those years ago? Especially in the face of Michael Parsonek's arduous invitation. When Lionsgate interviewed him, it was Parsonage who was the most supportive of "Ghost Chronicles 2" and gave him a lot of encouragement and praise from the beginning; later Lionsgate launched "Ghost Story". In the actual recording, Michael Parsonek did his best and Jon Philtimer continued to ask him to produce. Jon didn't listen, and Parsonek even called to apologize.

"Jan, you know I haven't had much success recently, and my life has been very difficult." Michael Parsonek sighed longly, but it was not for sympathy. If it weren't for "Fahrenheit 911", he would have been transferred to release a new film this year. Judging from the situation, it is not his credit that Lionsgate can participate in the investment of Century Fox's big production "The Day After Tomorrow"; the production cost of "The Sparrow", a joint venture with Paramount, was only 37.66 million, and the global box office was only 37.66 million; "The Punisher" million production cost, global box office; in 2002, "The Cube" was not released and performed mediocrely in the DVD market; in the same year, "Anti-Narcotics" cost only 12.63 million global box office...

Looking at these "report cards", Michael Parsonek felt very headache, "Ghost Story" will mess up again? Parsonek said: "To tell you the truth, the board of directors is very dissatisfied with me. If I let them down again, I will pack up and leave immediately to avoid being carried out by the security guards, haha.

"There is no need for these self-deprecating comments. Wang Yang knows that what Parsonek said is not a lie. Lionsgate in this world has never owned "Saw". He frowned and said: "Can you come to Fire Movie? "

"No, no, no, thank you." Michael Parsonek refused and thanked him repeatedly, and then sighed sadly: "Jan, I don't want to leave Lions Gate dejectedly."

"Okay!" The last few days of consideration suddenly came to fruition. Wang Yang's voice made Michael Parsonek ecstatic, and he stood up from his office chair: "You agreed? Wow! You agreed!?" Wang Yang Yang smiled softly. Parsonek didn't let him leave Lions Gate dejectedly back then. How could he just sit back and watch now? Both the company and the individual need to agree! Wang Yang said in a serious tone: "Yes, I agreed, screenwriter and planner. Michael." He smiled: "You will not leave Lionsgate with your head downcast. "The Ghost Story" is back."

Michael Parsonek moved around excitedly, the phone cord was shaky, he pressed his forehead and kept laughing and shouting: "Thank God, thank God! Oh my God! This is great! Thank you God……"

"Lionsgate Flames promotes the production of "The Ghost Story 3", and the Wonder Boy returns to the horror apartment after 6 years." Xiao - Yahoo Entertainment ※※

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