Chapter 445 440 Please Torture Us as Much as You Want

There are two main filming locations for "Wonderful Night 2", 70% in Hengdian and 30% in Xingchen Studio.

So actually the film had already started shooting in Beijing a week ago, but the opening ceremony had not been held.

This time, taking advantage of the huge popularity of "Kung Fu Panda", the scenes in Hengdian can also be used.

So it just so happens that we can hold an opening ceremony in Hengdian.

In addition to Lu Ping'an, Hu Qingquan and Han Sanpin, there were also leaders from the Film Bureau and the Ministry of Culture on the trip from Beijing to Hengdian.

Everyone was in a good mood. Obviously, "Kung Fu Panda" was a hit overseas and they made more than expected profits.

At present, the global box office of "Panda" is infinitely close to 500 million US dollars. After the North American release, there is almost no suspense that the global box office will exceed 600 million US dollars, and it is expected to exceed 700 million.

Although "Kung Fu Panda" is still a co-production on the surface, the industry actually knows that this is a serious domestic film.

It is an epic achievement in the history of domestic films that a domestic film has achieved a record-breaking box office.

And among them, the results are not the most important.

The most important thing is the huge stimulus that "Kung Fu Panda" has brought to the domestic animation industry.

Animated films are also films.

Everyone knows how big the output value of this area is and is envious.

But before this, the market in this area has not been well opened by domestic companies.

The most promising one was "The Lotus Lantern".

But due to various factors such as technology, cost, market size, and competitive environment.

The appearance of "The Lotus Lantern" has become the end of an era.

But now it is different. "Kung Fu Panda" has been a big hit, and Lu Ping'an has shared many technologies, which has a huge stimulating effect on the market.

Of course, stimulation is stimulation, and it is hard to say whether other excellent works will appear in the market in the future.

But for people like Han Sanpin, the current stimulation is actually enough.

With such "political achievements", Han Sanpin said before: "Even if I retire tomorrow, it is enough to go down in film history!"

The leader probably thinks so.

But Han Sanpin also knows.

"Kung Fu Panda" is just the beginning for Lu Ping'an.

Lu Ping'an will not stop here, and Han Sanpin does not want to see "Kung Fu Panda" as the swan song.

The higher-ups also hope that Lu Ping An can make better works that are popular all over the world.

And below the works, the higher-ups actually pay more attention to the industrialization of the film.

On this point, they are still right.

The popularity of a single movie does not mean anything. A strong system is really strong.

Then I learned that "Wonderful Night 2" is about to start filming, and the shooting mode adopted is a modular industrial mode, so the higher-ups directly said they want to come and see it.

You should know that the "Wonderful Night" series is actually an IP that has achieved global popularity earlier than "Kung Fu Panda".

So this time the higher-ups also have high hopes for "Wonderful Night 2".

This makes Lu Ping An a little helpless.

He actually doesn't want "Wonderful Night 2" to be taken so seriously.

"Wonderful Night 2" is not "Kung Fu Panda". One is a global animation, and the other is a local cultural film. They can't be compared together.

If "Wonderful Night 2" doesn't perform well overseas, he will be embarrassed.

So he remained humble along the way, and explained the difficulties of film production, obstacles to overseas, cultural barriers and other things.

He even said the same thing at the opening ceremony.

"Wonderful Night 2 is the most difficult film to produce among all Star's projects. Yes, it is more difficult than 1937. Why is it difficult? You will know it later."

"Can it achieve the same overseas results as Kung Fu Panda? I think it is difficult. It is good enough to surpass the overseas results of the first film. You should know that there are cultural barriers. Kung Fu and pandas are familiar to the world, but how many foreigners know Li Bai, who is most familiar to our Chinese people?"

"Of course, this is also the significance of this movie. This time, Wonderful Night 2 will continue the style of Wonderful Night 1. Humor and comedy are the keynotes, and brilliant history is the embellishment. In the future, if foreign movie fans like to watch it and can know from it, oh, it turns out that there is a famous poet named Li Bai in China, and it turns out that China's historical and cultural elements are so interesting, I think it will be a huge success to achieve this."

"What are the expectations for the domestic box office? First of all, I think that the movie must be recognized by everyone, and then the box office. The box office expectations are still the same. It is good enough to make the next one without losing money."

Facing the reporter, Lu Ping'an spoke with a strong desire to survive.

I don't know if it's useful, but it's definitely right to stack the buff first.

Then the official opening ceremony.

Because there are leaders present, even if their identities are not high-profile, it is definitely not okay to burn incense and cut pigs, so they changed to cutting the ribbon.

Lu Ping'an, Ning Hao, the protagonist Fan Wei, and the leaders stood in a row, and with a click, "Wonderful Night 2" officially started.

Then the first shot was very simple, Fan Chenggong and his son, dressed in security uniforms, stood in front of the city gate building.

Night scenes were shot during the day. In the camera, the father and son looked at the gate, their faces full of worry and expectation for the next adventure.

As the gate slowly opened, the golden light shone through the gap of the gate, and the expressions of the two became more and more exaggerated.

Then the two of them opened their pupils, as if they had seen a fairyland. However, just when they were about to shout, their expressions suddenly collapsed and they became speechless.

Those who knew the script knew that the reason why the two of them were like this was because there was another door behind the door.

"Click!"

Ning Hao shouted the order.

Everyone applauded.

Today's mission is over.

Everyone temporarily stopped work and started the opening banquet.

At the opening banquet, Lu Pingan specifically chatted with all the guest actors and toasted.

There were 21 actors including Lan Tianye, Chen Daomin, Zhang Beiguang, Fan Xiaopang, Chen Kun, and Tang Yan, who was taken care of by Sister Hua.

In theory, guest actors don't need to come when the filming starts.

But this time, not only did they come, but they were all in place.

This is mainly related to Lu Pingan's handling method.

This time, for "Wonderful Night 2", because Lu Ping'an will be far away in Beijing and cannot direct on site, the crew has changed to modular shooting. In this way, after a module is shot, if Lu Ping'an feels that Ning Hao's handling is not good, he can reshoot it several times, so that the efficiency can be optimized.

Reshooting is simple to say, but it is a chain reaction. Moreover, the cameo in "Wonderful Night 2" is not like other movies. It really gives you a main shot. Many of them are just a flash, and many of the scenes where the cameos are located are not just one module, but as many as six modules.

If they are reshot several times, it is certainly not justifiable to toss the free cameo actors so much, and some of them can't even show their faces in the end.

Although Lu Ping'an has a high status and a big reputation.

But you can't play with people like this, right?

Many disturbances in the circle are actually caused by this.

So in order to ensure quality and block troubles, it is not a big problem to spend some money. The money is paid and the goods are paid, so there is no need to argue.

So this time, all the cameo roles were given to the actors at the market price.

For example, Chen Daomin was paid 600,000 yuan for appearing for less than a minute, Lan Tianye received 150,000 yuan, and Zhang Beiguang received 150,000 yuan. The rest of the prices were not very high, and the total guest role pay cost nearly 2.4 million yuan.

It was all small money, which was not stressful for the current overflowing budget of the project.

In this way, these people were not guest actors, but real cast members, but the overall performance time was unlikely to take several months like the real leading actors, and it might be done in one day.

So everyone had the same attitude at the beginning.

After several refusals, they said that it was just a guest role, just a guest role, why should they be paid so much money?

But Lu Pingan said directly: "Even if the guest role only lasted for a few seconds, it was an important character in the movie, just like in history books, a few strokes were their magnificent life, so you are not here to guest star, but a historical target, a living history, of course you can't take advantage of it for free."

In a word, the hidden danger was solved directly.

At the same time, it also raised the level of the movie, and made Lan Tianye, Chen Daomin and others refresh their impressions of Lu Pingan, and completely made the guest actors pay more attention to the role.

Well, it is definitely not because "Wonderful Night 2" has a high level of attention, even the Ministry of Culture pays attention to it, it is a hot IP with international standards, and it is paid.

Everyone is willing to act well, and there is only one purpose, that is, to make friends with the best film directors in the country.

So when Lu Pingan raised his glass and said: "This is my first time to operate a big movie, it may be more troublesome at the beginning, please take care of it."

Everyone said: "No problem, Director Ning, please toss us as much as you want"