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Chapter 29 Ang Lee and the Boys (1/5)

"The Flowers of War" has received the key to be extended, but the New Year's Day holiday is about to start. Even if the key to be extended, the increase in the box office revenue of the movie has almost no impact, and at most it will be charged a few million.

For domestic films, "key extension" is more like a certificate of honor, awarded to those movies with excellent quality and strong box office performance.

In fact, on the third day of the movie's release, there was already a gun version online. On the second week of release, the high-definition version also appeared.

It’s not that easy to crack down on piracy!

Many people say that the protection of copyright in the United States is top-notch. In fact, it is just that. The daily viewing of other people's BT websites is much greater than burning after reading...

Data shows that the United States is the country with the most pirated versions, of course, mainly because many streaming media platforms do not obtain copyright licenses...

In fact, it is also difficult for us to have so many video websites, each one has its own advantages. We can't all websites contribute VIP, right?

That's too much expense!

If there is a software that can cover all copyrights, even if it costs 50 yuan a month, I guess there will be many customers who are willing to choose!

China Mobile, why are you not taking action?

...

Tingfeng is not the only investor of "Boys Pi". The initiator of this project is Jill Nate, a producer under Fox.

The order of launching a Hollywood A-level project is usually the producer who finds a good project, then agrees with the film crew, and then finds a director.

The same is true for "Boys Pi"!

In fact, compared to Ma Xiaokang, Ang Lee is more like a pure director, and he will not invest in a film company casually!

Although Jill Nate, although not as good as the most awesome producers, is also well-known in Hollywood. He has produced "Weakness", "Marley and Me", and "My Best Friend's Wedding", which are all high-reward movies, especially "Weakness", which invested $29 million, and returned a high box office of $255 million in North America and $400 million worldwide!

"Youth Pi" was published in 2001 and ranked in the top 20 in North America's best-selling list, which was naturally noticed by many people. Of course, Jill Nate also liked it!

After winning the film and television adaptation rights, he found several directors, including John Lee Hankao, the director of "Weakness", but unfortunately he was not interested...

Then he found Ang Lee...

Ang Lee is of course a big director in Hollywood!

Even the "Made Woodstock Music Festival" with very unfair values ​​has a box office of nearly 80 million US dollars in North America - the production cost is 30 million...

However, Twentieth Century Fox’s impression of "Boyant Pi" was not very good. Ang Lee had messed up a big project. "The Hulk" cost $137 million, and the global box office was barely over 100 million, and the box office was defeated in a slump!

So, Gilnett initially asked for an investment of $60 million...

Then half of the shots were taken, and the money was gone...

The peak was made up and invested 30 million.

Yuehua also took out 30 million candidates...

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By the way, let’s talk about Ang Lee. A bunch of people said that he had been a housewife at home for six years, and then he succeeded in one fell swoop!

In fact, this is not the case. Ang Lee's graduation work "Division Line" won the first place in New York University!

In order to shoot this graduation work, Ang Lee relied on work and sponsored by his parents and his wife to raise more than one million NT dollars.

After the graduation ceremony was broadcast, his work was immediately rushed to sign contracts by major agencies. The road ahead seems to have been paved and becoming a great director is just around the corner. This feeling is not something that ordinary graduates can experience.

Think about it, the outstanding graduate who just graduated and won the first place in his work and was snatched to sign the contract was naturally a bit arrogant. In addition, the praises from people around me, I guess Ang Lee must have encountered some unsatisfactory opportunities during this period, and he voluntarily gave up.

It was okay to wait two years ago, but time flies. Six years have passed after grinding. No matter how proud a person is, he has been smoothed out. The so-called "promotion" is just like this.

He is not a full-time housewife, but has been exaggerated by the media for no reason. Taking children to cook is just his side job. During these six years, Ang Lee has gone out for several months and went to his friend's house to study scripts with his friends.

When writing "Pushing Hands", he also spent his own money on research.

Actually, he has always had a job!

Just having no show is like having no money to get it...

Then, by 1990, Ang Lee had reached the verge of ending his life.

If there was no script selection from the Taiwan News Bureau at that time, or the opportunity to come to Ang Lee two years later, perhaps Ang Lee would have never made any progress since then, and all kinds of chicken soups would have been missing a piece of material.

In addition, Ang Lee's original purpose in participating in this competition was just to get the prize money, and he had no intention of making a movie. Even later, the Taiwan News Bureau decided to invest money for him to make a movie, Ang Lee was hesitant because of his low investment. Finally, he was awakened by Hou Hsiao-hsien's words, and the "Family Trilogy" was created.

Then, he was lucky enough to meet Ted Hope!

A producer who took charge of Ang Lee’s first five movies!

It was also under his recommendation that "Wedding Banquet" was shortlisted for the main competition unit of the Berlin Film Festival, setting a copyright record of $31 million signed on the night of winning the award...

"Pushing Hand" undoubtedly has a good script, and what it is to be discussed is also very interesting. But it is very immature in many aspects of the shooting process. The actors act a bit strange.

But what Li Anniu is that in his subsequent "Wedding Banquet" and "Food and Men and Women", the progress of each movie was huge.

When Ang Lee worked with a professional Hollywood team, the quality of the films later exceeded a lot.

His progress in the past few years may have exceeded the sum of the previous six years.

I feel very disgusted that every time Ang Lee's new movie is released, the media will take out the story of his six years at home and hype it up...

However, that's what Yuehua did...

I always have to fry it!

More inspirational…

By the way, I hyped up the stupidity of Ang Lee. Only in this way can it have a strong contrast with his future achievements and be dramatic.

Of course, in fact, his achievements when he was young can be described as talented.

Because of Ang Lee's humble, self-showing and unpretentious personality, the media thinks that he is a stupid person who becomes a master through hard work. It's like a top student modestly saying to you: "Oh! I didn't get well in the exam." In fact, he got 95 points, and in his mind that he didn't get well in the exam without a full score. The media spread the news only after hearing this sentence, and did not know the reason behind it carefully.

None of these matters!

How many people care about the truth?

You must have heard of Einstein's math grades in elementary school, but later he studied hard and became the greatest physicist in the world...

How bad is it? I only got 1 point in math...

What is the truth? The German test scores are scored in a 6-point system, 1 point is the full score, and 6 points is the lowest score.

Is it bad if I get a full mark?

"Youth Pi" is about to start painting in the mainland, so of course I have to promote it. Who can I promote it?

Except Ang Lee!

Zhang Junsheng personally wrote an article about "Ten Years of A Dream of Movie" - Master Ang Lee...

Yuehua's publicity team boasted about the effects of the movie - the mainland will be released one day later than North America. As for the reputation of the United States, forget it, "Pi" IMDb score is only 7.9 points, and it is only 6.6 points before it is released, and it is not as high as the Hulk...

Just score the screen effect!

Anyway, most viewers go to the cinema to see the effect!

On the first day of release, theaters gave 32% of the screening volume, and "Young Pi" won 18.29 million in the first day...

This achievement is not very good. After all, the investment of "Boyant Pi" is US$120 million...

However, the reputation is amazing!

Douban score was directly topped at 9.1!

The audience was frightened by the 3D effect. I really didn’t expect that the pictures presented in 3D can be so beautiful!

Well, there is no comparison and no harm. The recently released domestic 3D movies make it a bit irresistible to the audience for the real 3D.

"Five stars dedicated to the best 3D movie he has seen. Ang Lee himself said that making this movie is an impossible task, but he worked hard for four years and finally did it. For the first time, he felt that 3D is an integral part of a movie, as well as the changing frame ratio, alternating editing, everything is for the story itself."

"With this production level, I am so embarrassed to charge such a small ticket price. How can you say that you are also from 3D in China?

The next day, the box office doubled directly, winning 28 million;

On the third day, 38 million...

On the fourth day, 39 million...

It was released for four days, and won 120 million in the first weekend. Its reputation continues to be outdated. It is obvious that this is a movie with great potential!
Chapter completed!
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