The Best Director

On March 13, the 11th Empire Awards Ceremony was held at the Hilton Hotel in London, England. "Firefly" won three awards for Best Film, Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Film, and Best Director; Kelly of "Pride and Prejudice" -Reilly defeated Chloë Grace Moretz and others to win the Best New Artist Award.

On March 25, the 27th Young Artist Awards were announced in Los Angeles. Chloë Grace Moretz stole the show. She won the Best Film Actress Ten Years or Under for "500 Days of Summer" and was also nominated for Best Actress. Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture, and nominated for Best Actress in a Motion Picture for "The Ghost Story 3".

Little Chloë has become one of the hottest child stars in Hollywood, with film offers pouring in. In addition to confirming that she will star in FF's "Marley and Me" and "Firefly 2" to be filmed next year, she has also accepted a contract with Lionsgate Films. In the industry's remake of the western film "Due to Yuma", she plays the daughter of the protagonist Dan Evans. Originally, Evans had two sons in the 1957 version. Now for the sake of the market for this super-popular child star, the screenwriter removed the younger son. The movie was changed to a younger daughter. The movie is scheduled to be filmed in the fourth quarter of this year. Young Chloe has also voiced a Disney cartoon and appeared in a few episodes of "Desperate Masters". She is really a busy person.

In fact, she could be busier, but Wang Yang, who is full of fatherly love, warned her and her family not to work all day at a young age. Don't waste your childhood and studies because of this, and don't be proud and complacent!

For her dear Uncle Young, little Khloe naturally obeys her advice. Her brother, parents and other family members also follow the advice. Of course, they love little Khloe even more and will make appropriate and reasonable work arrangements. Moreover, the current film appointments are all about a light workload. The supporting role has become little Chloe’s play time. She loves performing.

Although Moretz is a brat, she is still a 9-year-old girl after all. She is very much looking forward to "Ice Age 3", which will be released globally on March 31st. Manny the woolly mammoth, Diego the saber-toothed tiger, and Sid the sloth ...This time, in search of companions, a group of cute animals broke into the dinosaur's territory. What new friends will they make? What dangers will they encounter? These make countless IAmí full of expectations.

In 2002, "Ice Age" had a global box office of 476 million, and in 2004, "Ice Age 2" had a global box office of 730 million. Now, two years later, "Ice Age 3" is hilarious!

Although the speed of "Flame Blue Sky" in launching sequels has always been questioned, the high quality of the film often gets thumbs up from the media and the public. "IA3" is the first new film released by Flame Films this year, with a production cost of 100 million US dollars, which is relatively high. It has increased by 25 million compared with the previous work. As the final work of the first trilogy, Flame naturally has high hopes for it. The promotion budget is as high as 35 million blockbusters. This means that the box office insurance line of "IA3" is more than 300 million global box office. .

300 million? Too little! This is indeed the idea of ​​Flame \u0026 Blue Sky. No matter how you predict it, "IA3" seems to be able to receive 500 million, and the young boss's expectation is to hit the global box office of 900 million or even 1 billion!

As the saying goes, "How bold a person is,

"How high is the box office?" Focusing on the 900 million flame, "IA3" has set the tone for simultaneous global release in Australia, China, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Russia, Spain, the United Kingdom...these overseas large ticket warehouses Everything is ready to go! The distribution in France, Brazil, and Singapore is handled by the Flame Branch. It will land on tens of thousands of ordinary screens around the world, and will also appear in IMAX giant screens, 3D screens and other screening halls.

Previously, WB's new film "V for Vendetta" successfully won the first week championship from March 17 to 23 with 36.84 million. Its Rotten Tomatoes three indicators were 73%/63% and 88% respectively. The film critics had mixed praise for it. The audience liked it very much. There is no suspense. Natalie Botman's performance has been unanimously praised by both circles. People finally saw her bald killer CULT look and the crazy Eve. She was "sparkling", "awesome" and "unique" "," "great", "amazing" and other complimentary words were heard endlessly. The fans who ran to watch Natalie because of the magical force were not disappointed, E!

However, its box office power could not be sustained. Not only did it lose the weekly championship from March 24 to 30 to "The Insider", but its box office trend also plummeted -55.3% and only received 16.46 million. There is no hope of breaking over 100 million, as some media reports Commentators joked that Natalie Botman left Magic Young and lost her magical power.

It's April, a new week has begun, and "500 Days with Summer", which was released for 14 weeks, has been completely canceled. The screening period of the movie is getting shorter and shorter, especially for the movie of "market initiator" Wang Yang .

This most successful pornographic romance film in recent years ultimately received 236 million in North American box office. This achievement ranks 4th in Wang Yang's personal director rankings and 3rd in romantic comedies (1978 to present). 2, only 5 million behind "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" which topped the list with 241 million; however, in terms of global box office, "500 Days" ranks first, and with the 161 million overseas box office that set off a whirlwind of freshness, its The global box office reached 397 million! And its production cost is only 15 million.

It’s simply a legal money grab! With such impressive results, Flame Films has, as always, given bonus red envelopes of varying amounts to the crew. The generosity is one of the reasons why "Best Boss" Wang Yang is so popular, and it is also why everyone is willing to follow him. "At the same time, One of the reasons for "shooting" is that you will be exhausted but full of fighting spirit. This is often the case. Others work hard to follow you and make a lot of money without any reward? Personal charm is not MAX.

"Drinking from a big bowl, eating a big piece of meat, and dividing the silver with a big scale, Mr. Wu will follow your grandfather." Grandpa Wang taught Wang Yang this way since he was a child, and Wang Yang is also planning to teach Keke this way.

But Natalie Botman didn't. Wang Yang refused to give her a red envelope, saying that it would insult their brotherhood! Natalie protested sternly and refused to block her. She also deliberately mentioned this to her. Why did little Chloe have candy and Zachary have candy? Didn’t he know that she was saving money to start her Handsome Charlie Film Company? ? It's really hateful! After some careful consideration, Wang Yang still didn't. He said, "The time has come to test our friendship!" Natalie only said one sentence: "FUсK-U!"

With 397 million, "500 Days" has steadily surpassed "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" with 368 million, becoming the world's highest-grossing romantic comedy in recent years.

Also going offline is "Munich," which was also screened for 14 weeks. This film had a maximum of 1,498 theaters and only received 47.4 million North American box office. Compared with its 70 million production cost, it can be said that Universal suffered a loss. ; And Spielberg, who had a close fight with Miraculous Young, was completely defeated again in this battle.

This week "Brokeback Mountain" took in a lot of box office in 180 theaters. Its North American total has reached 86.21 million, ranking third among gay films (1980 to present). Because it failed to win the Oscar for Best Director For some awards, "Firefly" has always been suppressed by "Firefly" during the awards season. Therefore, although the promotion of "Firefly" is more vigorous, its box office performance is not much different from that of the Focus 05 version. This is probably because it is difficult to have a movie-watching group with this theme. What a change.

However, with the current global box office of 182 million, it is enough to make the flame film crews very happy. Coupled with the final global box office of "Chainsaw 3" of 206 million, last year's seven movies were 100% successful!

As more than 200 theaters took advantage of the Oscar effect at the beginning of the month to re-screen "Firefly", the three-week re-release of this Oscar-winning best picture came to an end again. More than 2 million tickets were sold. The North American box office rose to 653 million, and the global box office It is

"Firefly 2" seems to be very far away. Neither Wang Yang nor Joss Whedon has finalized the script. The TV series version of "Firefly" will start shooting on Monday. It is not surprising that the progress is so smooth. Come to Flame Home Entertainment The funding supply is unambiguous. Secondly, Whedon already has a thick script for the series. As long as the story content is transplanted to another spaceship, the world of Cowboy Bebop will still be displayed. These times are very important to "Vampire Hunter". It’s not a difficult task for the father of “Buffy” and “Angel.”

The TV series version of "Firefly" will be released on the channel this fall. Needless to say, Channel The performance of "Prison Break" in the third season, which lost the magical young, was mediocre, and the ratings gradually declined. It is not known whether it can maintain the audience level of 20 million in the fourth season. It needs a new king; not to mention that there are never too many good dramas, and "Firefly" will Debut on Thursday night from 9:00-10:00, against CBS's ace ": CSI"!

You must know that "Firefly" has been in the top three with 25 million+ viewers for a long time this season. "Firefly" is here to deal with it. It's time for the screen pattern of the Thursday night nine o'clock slot to change! Will it not be able to hold up ""? Will it get no ratings? The senior management are very disdainful, what a joke!

The TV series version of "Firefly", which is scheduled to have 24 episodes in the first season, is fully independently invested by Flame Home Entertainment, but don't think that its production cost is very low. On the contrary, the average budget is 5 million per episode, and the budget for the premiere episode is 15 million, with 24 episodes. The budget is exactly 130 million!

It seems that spending 125 million US dollars to produce "Band of Brothers" is not that high, but "Brothers" is a premium channel míni drama, while "Fireflies" is a broadcast channel TV series. The two are completely different. In the latter's case, , "Firefly" suddenly snatched away the title of "Highest Budget Drama Series" from "Missing". In addition to a high-level production and directing team, so much money is mainly spent on special effects and locations. The early publicity has already claimed to have "movie effects."

In terms of the cast, founder Joss Whedon has used some members of the "Whedon Gang", such as Nathan Fillion, who will play the male protagonist "Captain Fry", a sworn enemy of Captain Mal. A funny guy, Whedon named the actor "Fry" just to pay tribute to Wang Yang.

These tidbits are very interesting to fans of the movie. They have always been more concerned about what responsibilities Miyang holds? How involved was he in the series?

In this regard, Joss Whedon told GEEK fans on the forum: "Young did not participate in the specific implementation work, but he provided a lot of detailed settings, construction opinions and very important views of that world, especially what he told This is really of great significance. It determines how much main story content, how much unit story content, how much Cowboy Bebop entertainment, culture and other life details you can see in each episode. The style of the city, and how many special effects there are. Yang’s participation makes our story more exciting, exciting, humorous and interesting.”

The publicity says that Wang Yang is the producer of the TV series version of "Firefly". In fact, he is one of the planning producers. But it is enough. The ultra-high budget, the amazing Yang, Whedon, Firefly... these elements add up, It’s highly anticipated! Moviegoers really want to travel through time and space to watch this drama first.

Despite this, it has disturbed the hearts of viewers even before it started production. The channel is still afraid to book a full season, and the same is true for other channels that want to compete. The risk is too great! I only dare to purchase the 12 episodes of the second half of the season first. If the ratings do not reach the ideal level by then... then there is no need for it to return after the winter break.

At the same time, the Flame Group made another move, not too big or too small. Through capital injection and merger, Wang Yang's sī-person game development company "Fire Entertainment (nder-nment)" officially joined the Flame Group.

This company has not made much noise since its establishment in 2002. It has been making some easy and beautiful casual games, such as "Squirrel Collecting Fruits" and "Squirrel Jump" in the "Ice Age" series. The income supports the company's expenses. Not to mention the miraculous results, there are almost no opportunities to be in the news, so that the media gradually forget that there is such a "toy" in Magic Yang. Only when magazines list the "most unprofessional people in Hollywood", they will definitely When it comes to Wang Yang, then IT websites, game companies, football critics, popular bloggers, restaurants...

In fact, Wang Yang's enthusiasm for games has not weakened at all, both for playing games and making games. He is a GEEK who can indulge in video games. Huozhong has been performing a "mysterious mission" in the past few years. Initially, he, Chris Taylor and others planned to purchase the right to use Ware's game engine "Unlimited" to develop large-scale RPG games. However, Things didn't go very well and they eventually broke up.

Wang Yang has never been a person who likes his mother-in-law and is restrained by others, so he ordered to develop a game engine by himself!

The reason for the demise of many game developers is that they do not have their own game engines. Just like Blue Sky Studio and Graphics Engine, if Tinder wants to achieve great development, it cannot lag behind others in terms of technology. Only with an engine and technology can we make games. Wanted game. Funds are constantly invested and talents are constantly recruited. Especially after the collapse of Black Island Studio, Tinder recruited several former Black Island members. After 4 years of research and development, Tinder Company finally came up with the first generation "Tinder Engine"!

Although it is not comparable to Unreal Engine, Crytek's NE series engines, etc., the Tinder Engine is not a piece of junk. Chris Taylor and others confidently said that "it is comparable to the rld engine and the engine." With this thing, Tinder is finally able to produce large-scale RPG games, and the time to merge into the Flame Group has arrived, so with this news, the first Tinder RPG game "Firefly: Cowboy Bebop" has officially been put into production and will be released in the summer of 2008!

Of course, Tinder Company now has some achievements in the field of casual games and web games, and it will not give up this market. You must know that what busy young SS usually play most are not large games, but those that do not take much time at a time. Easy casual game.

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A cry of surprise rang out in the spacious living room. On the big TV screen, Chow Yun-fat was dodging whizzing bullets in the hospital corridor. He rescued a baby from a nurse. He held a gun in one hand and crouched in the corner holding the baby with the other. The gangsters continued the fierce gun battle, bang! boom! boom! boom!

"Wow!" Wang Yang, who was fascinated by the sofa, exclaimed again and again. Keke, who was sitting in his arms, also opened her mouth in surprise, and looked at the TV screen with her big eyes blinking, not knowing what she saw. .

This is an action film about police and gangster gunfights. "Hot Detective" (1992) directed by John Woo was his last Hong Kong film before going to Hollywood. It tells the story of Chow Yun-fat playing a hot-shot detective who hates evil. , Tony Leung is an undercover policeman who has been involved in the arms trafficking group. The two develop a subtle sympathy for each other during the investigation of the case, and finally work together to deal with the criminal group. This can also be regarded as the origin of the prototype of "Chen Yongren".

In recent days, Wang Yang sometimes reviews these classic or non-classic Hong Kong undercover films, police and gangster films, these films that were integrated into "Infernal Affairs": "The Marginal Man", "Dragon Tiger", "Dark War"... Looking for inspiration through this, I didn’t expect that Ke Ke also liked to watch it, and we watched it together every time.

"Hey! I didn't mean it." On the TV screen, Chow Yun-fat stepped on the broken glass door, and the broken glass hurt the gangster's face. He wiped away the blood splattered on the gangster's chin while apologizing.

"Haha!" Wang Yang suddenly laughed, and Ke Ke immediately laughed, waving her two little fists back and forth. Jessica, who was sitting on the other end of the sofa, looked at this and couldn't help but shake her head. Why did the whole family seem to like violence... Her eyes returned to the screen and asked at the same time: "Honey, should we bring Ke Ke?" Go watch "Ice Age 3"?" Wang Yang was still laughing, nodded and replied: "Okay!"

On March 31, "Ice Age 3" was released. ! .