Director’s Legend

No matter how much the domestic media complains about Shao Shuaijun, it will not change the embarrassment of "500 Days with Summer" losing the Oscar. Fortunately, Shao Shuaijun thought very openly. Shao Shuaijun has also restrained his temper since he fought with the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards and the Hong Kong Film Awards.

The world doesn't revolve around a certain person. Whether he wins an award or not is more like icing on the cake. At Shao Shuaijun's current level, he hopes to win an award, but he also hopes to be recognized by the audience. A movie with a small and fresh taste, which unexpectedly won a box office of 320 million US dollars, is already a success.

Although Oscar did not give any nominations to "500 Days with Summer", they sent an invitation to Shao Shuaijun. I hope that Shao Shuaijun can serve as the award presenter of the 81st Oscar. In terms of artistic achievements, Shao Shuaijun is ignored, but in terms of popularity, he has to look down on Shao Shuaijun.

Today's Shao Shuaijun is a giant in the entertainment industry, where there is him, the ratings are indispensable.

No matter how low-key he is, the representative of the American dream is not a light word. Just like Bill Gates is the most pompous and eye-catching one wherever he goes. The Oscar still puts art first, but it doesn't mean that the organizers don't want to use their brains to increase the ratings.

However, Shao Shuaijun flatly refused, because they arranged for Shao Shuaijun to present the award to the best director.

Isn't this exposing scars to Shao Shuaijun?

So far, he has won a Saturn Award for Best Director.

Therefore, this year's Oscars will end here, and have nothing to do with Shao Shuaijun...

Drink and drink, drop by. Visiting relatives, this year has passed in a lively manner. Because of the special plane, Shao Shuaijun and Li Xiuxiu ran on both sides. They are still in Luzhou today, but they will go to Bingcheng tomorrow.

On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, everyone with a job went to work, and Shao Shuaijun and Li Xiuxiu also returned to Dream Chasing Entertainment Group in Beijing.

Everything slowly entered the normal working state from the atmosphere of the New Year.

As soon as he arrived in the capital, good news came from the United States. Summit Entertainment has reached a deal with 20th Century Fox.

Summit Entertainment for $50 million. Acquired all copyrights of the old version of "Planet of the Apes" series (1968-1973) and one film of the new version of "Planet of the Apes" (2001) and the TV version of "Planet of the Apes" (1974) owned by Twentieth Century Fox Year) 14 episodes, "Return to the Planet of the Apes" (1975) 13 episodes, all copyrights.

It also includes all copyrights of the original author Pierre Bulle's novel of the same name.

This is great news. Shao Shuaijun immediately issued an order. Let the editorial department of Summit Entertainment follow the outline he provided. Writing the latest prequel film to Planet of the Apes, Rise of the Planet of the Apes. When the script is finished, it is estimated that the production team of "Avatar" has been completed, and this team just happened to be invited. Use facial expression capture technology to shoot movies.

Without facial expression capture technology, this movie depicting orangutans would never be able to surpass the old five-part series.

With this technology in hand, this is the classic movie that conquered the world. After all, no matter how good the original version is, the image of the orangutan is too frustrating. It is basically a human face with makeup, and then covered with a layer of hair, which seriously lacks a sense of substitution.

In a few days, Shao Shuaijun took the edited "Pounding Heartbeat" to Hollywood. The editing of the film was completed, and the flaws were also dealt with in post-production. Now, as long as the soundtrack is dubbed and the sound track is recorded in Hollywood, it can be released. .

After the film was submitted for review, the grading pg level was quickly determined.

In the American movie classification, this level is normal, and it is recommended to watch it with parents, as some scenes may make children feel uncomfortable. Tutorial level, some content may not be suitable for children to watch - movies at this level are basically free of sex, drug use and drug use, if there is a short period of time, and the horror and violence scenes will not exceed the range of moderation.

After grading, the release date is determined.

Although Shao Shuaijun made "500 Days with Summer" a hit at the box office, he can't guarantee that "Peng Rang's Heartbeat" will also be a hit. Whether the "war" between children can attract people in this impetuous society is unknown.

In the end, Shao Shuaijun didn't choose a good schedule, but put the movie in April to test the waters in the low season of spring. After all, there is only a cost of less than 10 million yuan, so if you lose money, you won't lose much. Once the schedule is set, the rest is publicity. There are no big names in the film, so they all go to the battle to do publicity.

The whole month of March is the promotional period of the film, which will be screened on a small scale in major cities, or participate in exhibitions or participate in various animation festivals and other programs.

In addition to being busy with the promotion of "Pounding", Shao Shuaijun has two more films to worry about. The first one is "Slumdog Millionaire", which is currently in post-production in Hollywood after filming in India. Meng Jiahe's highlight show "imax-3d Yupu Tuan".

"Slumdog Millionaire" is the highlight of Summit Entertainment this year, and it may be scheduled to be released in September to hit the Oscars. This kind of film that is destined to be awarded has a very long screening cycle, and it can hit major awards starting in September, and then hit the Oscars in one fell swoop, and finally gain both fame and fortune.

As for "imax-3d Yupu Tuan" will be screened first in Asia, when it premieres in Hong Kong, it will be arranged before May Day, so that it is convenient for mainland audiences to come to Hong Kong to watch movies during the holiday. This is a Fengyue movie that exists to test the imax-3d technology. If the response is good, it will also be arranged to be released around the world.

As the producer of the two films, Shao Shuaijun is obliged to help arrange various matters of the films.

After complicated planning, the gear was finally determined, and the publicity began step by step. This year can be said to be the year with the largest number of movies released in the history of Summit Entertainment, and the work is also particularly busy.

In April, "Heartbeat" was released; in May, "imax-3d Yupu Tuan" may land in North America; in June, "Dancing Out of My Life 3" was released; in July. "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" comes out; in September, "Slumdog Millionaire"; in November, "Sherlock Holmes"; in December, "The Hangover 2."

Although only one "Eclipse" is clearly a box office bomb, the other films are also money-sucking machines. With the box office revenue of some co-productions, it is very likely that the total box office this year will exceed 2 billion. This will be the second time in a row that Summit Entertainment will break through the limits of independent film companies and rank among the top Hollywood film companies.

In March, the small-scale screening of "Pounding Heartbeat" ended.

After screening. The response was mixed. Netizens who were lucky enough to watch it praised it on the Internet. The media people reacted very extreme.

On Rotten Tomatoes, there are 72 film reviews, 45 are passing, and the freshness is 62%. People in the media who don't like it say it's a boring movie. Those who like it praise it for rewashing the soul. Confrontation in pairs. The freshness is poor.

"Pounding Heart" is a niche and special movie. It puts you in a warm, interesting, and humanistic atmosphere, until it finally gives you a movie that doesn't look so bad. A credible, beautiful story." - Kerry Regis of the Los Angeles Times gave it a score of 610, a tomato.

"A well-motivated family movie with the details and life lessons of a first love is far better than a film that puts some talented characters at the center." -- Michael Osher, Variety Levin gave a score of 34, a tomato.

"Thunderbolt isn't unbearably incomplete, but it's still just a child's eye, filtering out the world's cynicism." — Stephen Holden, The New York Times, 2.55 , a rotten vegetable leaf.

"A surprisingly engaging and beautifully told story about a young romance." - John Hanlon of Big Hollywood gave it a perfect score of 5.05.

"I think some people might have a nostalgic response to this praising innocence and chastity, but I find it unbearable." - "han, only gave a score of 14, rotten leaves.

"How does this movie feel static? A diorama of 60s life, rather than a living story. Shaw doesn't seem to understand America." - Sean Mins of the Salt Lake Tribune to A score of 2.54 points is also a rotten leaf.

"This is the best movie Shao Shuaijun has ever made." — James Boratini of the reelviews website gave it a score of 3.54, Bright Tomatoes.

Compared with media film critics' praise and criticism, the audience showed a fanatical love for the film. Imdb even gave a super score of 9.4 points.

"Great movie. Teenage love story for adult enjoyment." - Gregory-Dark 9.

"This is such a well-done, sensitive, sweet, uplifting film. Very smart, quiet narration. Absolutely beautiful ending that really took all of my feminine emotions out, chirping. I want Share it on twitter." - 10 points from Cynthia S.

"Heartbeat is a lovely movie and everyone misses the little girl who was very independent, or the guy with the blue eyes who lived across the street." -napierslogs also gave it a 10.

"That's great, the little deer is bumping around." ——sao gave 9 points.

"When she jumped around him, he always dismissed her. When he realized that his eyes could no longer leave her, she was already elegant, confident, and beautiful like a goddess. She was so beautiful!"—— Johnson. Bonnie gave 10 points.

"Some people are superficial, some people are so rich that they're not. One day you meet someone who's as colorful as a rainbow, and when you meet that person, you'll think everyone else is just a cloud. Love that line." — —wordcofo also gave 10 points.

The media opposed it, and the audience praised it. No matter what the evaluation was, the popularity had already been spread, and "Pounding Heart" did not bother to hold the premiere. On Friday, April 3, it landed directly in 3,226 theaters in North America.

Three days later, the box office of the first weekend was released. In this off-season when only one movie "Fast and Furious 4" was released, "Pounding Heart" did not have the glory of previous Shao Shuaijun movies, not only failed to keep up with "Fast and Furious 4" 7095 It is not even as good as the $32 million of the bad movie "Monsters vs. Aliens" in its second week of release.

It only earned $10.35 million at the box office, ranking third at the weekend box office.

Applause but not seat. (to be continued..)